I am very sorry to see all my "package-info.java" files being stamped with the "anomalous package-info.java" statement from Ant and have javac generate a lot of "Creating empty .../package-info.class".
While not being in a OSGi environment and not having annotations on packages, I do not at all find it "anomalous" to have my JavaDoc documentation written carefully in package-info.java files. I have read the Ant manual under javac, last section. What is the rationale behind forcing the generation of "empty" package-info.class files? When my javac task generates pages of output about package-info.class-creation and for no apparent reason, I get really scared. Contrary to most programmers, I actually care to write JavaDoc and at the vary least state the intended purpose and responsibility of packages. To me, the current state of package-info.java-handling does not appear to be sound at all. Is it sound? Someone care to comment upon the subject?
