Why does javadoc goes into an infinite loop

Question

at my dos prompt , in the same directory as my Page.java file, i type javadoc Page.java
why does it go into an infinite loop? instead of producing any documentation
it just says for example
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
javadoc Page.java
Stephen

Answer 1

this is a sample page -- i'm using jdk 1.4 trying to run javadoc Tracer.class or javadoc Tracer.java or javadoc Tracer gives throws the console into an infinite loop with the statement being printed over and over again. But i haven't just noticed this problem with javadoc -- i noticed this problem with certain types of mistakes in the code rather than just displaying the compiler error -- it creates this infinite loop in the dos console window. any thoughts ?
here is my version.
java version "1.4.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-b92)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode)
* Tracer.class logs items according to the following criteria:
* 2 = goes to text file Crawler_log.txt
* 1 = goes to console window because it is higher priority.
* @author Stephen
* @version 1.0
* @since June 2002
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
class Tracer{
     public static void log(int traceLevel, String message, Object value)
          pout.write(getLogFileDate(new Date()) +" >" + message + " value = " + value.toString());
     public static void log(int traceLevel, String message )
          pout.write("HI HOW ARE YOU " ) ;
          pout.flush();
     //public static accessor method
     public static Tracer getTracerInstance()
          return tracerInstance;
     private static String getLogFileDate(Date d )
          String s = df.format(d);
          String s1= s.replace(',','-');
          String s2= s1.replace(' ','-');
          String s3= s2.replace(':','.');
          System.out.println("getLogFileDate() = " + s3 ) ;
          return s3;
     //private instance
     private Tracer(){
          System.out.println("Tracer constructor works");
          df = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.MEDIUM);
          date                    = new java.util.Date();
          try{
          pout = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("Crawler_log"+getLogFileDate(new Date())+".txt", true)));
          pout.write("**************** New Log File Created "+ getLogFileDate(new Date()) +"****************");
          pout.flush();
          }catch (IOException e){
          System.out.println("**********THERE WAS A CRITICAL ERROR GETTING TRACER SINGLETON INITIALIZED. APPLICATION WILL STOP EXECUTION. ******* ");
     public static void main(String[] argz){
     System.out.println("main method starts ");
     Tracer tt = Tracer.getTracerInstance();
     System.out.println("main method successfully gets Tracer instance tt. "+ tt.toString());
     //the next method is where it fails - on pout.write() of log method. Why ?
     tt.log(1, "HIGH PRIORITY");
     System.out.println("main method ends ");
     //private static reference
     private static Tracer tracerInstance = new Tracer();
     private static Date date     = null;
     private static PrintWriter pout = null;
     public static DateFormat df = null;
}