JavaDoc Crashes when using -linksource

I tried upgrading our JavaDoc compilation to version 1.4.beta 3. When I run JavaDoc with the new "-linksource"

option it crashes. Note we have over 10,000 classes

in our product, and perhaps that is a facor. If I

turn off -linksource, it runs to completion.

This is the error mesge:

C:\wfc\Services\Build\Source\com\kronos\wfc\security\test\AuthenticationTester.java:32: warning - @author: is an unknown tag.

javadoc: In doclet class com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard, method start has thrown an exception java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.sun.tools.doclets.SourceToHTMLConverter.getAnchorName(SourceToHTMLConverter.java:282)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.HtmlStandardWriter.printSrcLink(HtmlStandardWriter.java:1102)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.ClassWriter.printClassDescription(ClassWriter.java:301)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.ClassWriter.generateClassFile(ClassWriter.java:228)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.ClassWriter.generate(ClassWriter.java:98)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.generateClassCycle(Standard.java:248)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.generateClassFiles(Standard.java:203)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.startGeneration(Standard.java:169)

at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.start(Standard.java:47)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:42)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:28)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:327)

at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.invoke(DocletInvoker.java:196)

at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.start(DocletInvoker.java:95)

at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.parseAndExecute(Start.java:288)

at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.begin(Start.java:114)

at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.execute(Main.java:44)

at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.main(Main.java:34)

2 errors

3059 warnings

[2186 byte] By [meldrum] at [2007-9-26 14:51:07]
# 1
This is the first we've heard of such a bug.I encourage you to submit this as a bug at java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi-Doug KramerJavadoc team
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