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In a J2EE project I filed an overview.html file in src/java and changed in the project's properties "Additional Javadoc Options" to "-overview overview.html". But this is totally ignored by the javadoc-build target in build-impl.xml, since there the additionalparam property isn't used. Copying the target to my build.xml and adding this parameter didn't help either, the javadoc tool couldn't find the file. A workaround seems to be to add the Overview-Parameter as an Element to the javadoc task in build.xml. There I had to specify Overview="src/java/overview.html" and everything worked fine.
wrong component, reassigning
Duplicate of the http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=50039, there is also described a way how to workaround this problem. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 50039 ***