REGRESSION: New -tag option behavior breaks XDoclet tag support

Name: rmT116609 Date: 07/21/2003


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.4.2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-b28)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-b28, mixed mode)


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
In the 1.4.2 release the behavior of the -tag option was changed to use '-' as a separator whenever the specified tag name contains *any* dashes (see bug 4750173). Unfortunately this causes problems with XDoclet tags that contain dashes in their name (e.g. @ejb.interface-method). Note that XDoclet has now been supporting the @tag.name syntax (as opposed to @tag:name) for quite some time, so the original motivation for this change may no longer be valid.

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.
(Incident Review ID: 190568)
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