I added a temporary fix in the parent pom.xml as seen below. But this should be permanently fixed by updating the javadoc.

<profiles>
<profile>
<id>disable-java8-doclint</id>
<activation>
<jdk>[1.8,)</jdk>
</activation>
<properties>
<additionalparam>-Xdoclint:none</additionalparam>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>