Clean up comments, update maven, require Java 8 for building

pom.xml

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -9,7 +11,7 @@
     <name>Aho-CoraSick algorithm for efficient string matching</name>
     <description>Java library for efficient string matching against a large set of keywords</description>
     <inceptionYear>2014</inceptionYear>
-    <url>http://ahocorasick.org</url>
+    <url>https://github.com/robert-bor/aho-corasick</url>
 
     <distributionManagement>
         <snapshotRepository>
@@ -46,12 +48,17 @@
             <organization>42</organization>
         </developer>
         <developer>
-            <name></name>
+            <name>Daniel Beck</name>
+            <organization>neoSearch UG (haftungsbeschränkt)</organization>
+        </developer>
+        <developer>
+            <name>Dave Jarvis</name>
+            <organization>White Magic Software, Ltd.</organization>
         </developer>
     </developers>
 
     <properties>
-        <java.version>1.7</java.version>
+        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 
         <junit.version>4.10</junit.version>
@@ -111,6 +118,9 @@
                         <goals>
                             <goal>jar</goal>
                         </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <source>8</source>
+                        </configuration>
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
@@ -147,7 +157,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>0.7.7.201606060606</version>
+                <version>0.8.5</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <goals>
@@ -166,5 +176,4 @@
 
         </plugins>
     </build>
-
 </project>

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/interval/Intervalable.java

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ package org.ahocorasick.interval;
 
 public interface Intervalable extends Comparable {
 
-    public int getStart();
+  int getStart();
 
-    public int getEnd();
+  int getEnd();
 
-    public int size();
+  int size();
 
 }

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/Payload.java

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 package org.ahocorasick.trie;
 
 /**
- * Payload holds the matched keyword and some payload-data.
+ * Contains the matched keyword and some payload data.
  * 
  * @author Daniel Beck
- *
  * @param <T> The type of the wrapped payload data.
  */
 public class Payload<T> implements Comparable<Payload<T>> {

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/PayloadEmit.java

@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@ import org.ahocorasick.interval.Interval;
 import org.ahocorasick.interval.Intervalable;
 
 /**
- * PayloadEmit contains a matched term and its associated payload data.
+ * Contains a matched term and its associated payload data.
  * 
  * @param <T> Type of the wrapped payload-data.
  * @author Daniel Beck
- *
  */
 public class PayloadEmit<T> extends Interval implements Intervalable {
 

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/PayloadFragmentToken.java

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 package org.ahocorasick.trie;
 
 /***
- * PayloadFragmentToken holds a text ("the fragment").
+ * Container for a token ("the fragment") that can emit a type of payload.
  * <p>
- * It does not matches a search term - so its <code>isMatch</code>-method
+ * This token indicates a matching search term was not found, so
- * returns always false. <code>getEmits</code> returns not Emits.
+ * {@link #isMatch()} always returns {@code false}.
+ * </p>
  * 
  * @author Daniel Beck
  *

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/PayloadMatchToken.java

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 package org.ahocorasick.trie;
 
 /**
- * PayloadMatchToken holds a text ("the fragment") an emits some output.
+ * Container for a token ("the fragment") that can emit a type of payload.
  * <p>
- * It matches a search term - so its <code>isMatch</code>-method returns always
+ * This token indicates a matching search term was found, so {@link #isMatch()}
- * true..
+ * always returns {@code true}.
+ * </p>
  * 
  * @author Daniel Beck
  *

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/PayloadToken.java

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package org.ahocorasick.trie;
 
 /***
  * PayloadToken holds a text ("the fragment") an emits some output. If
- * <code>isMatch</code> returns true, the token matched a search term.
+ * {@link #isMatch()} returns {@code true}, the token matched a search term.
  *
  * @author Daniel Beck
  *
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ public abstract class PayloadToken<T> {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Return true if a search term matched.
+     * Return {@code true} if a search term matched.
-     * @return true if this is a match
+     * @return {@code true} if this is a match
      */
     public abstract boolean isMatch();
 

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/PayloadTrie.java

@@ -17,15 +17,16 @@ import org.ahocorasick.util.ListElementRemoval;
 import org.ahocorasick.util.ListElementRemoval.RemoveElementPredicate;
 
 /**
- * A trie implementation, based on the Aho-Corasick white paper, Bell
+ * A trie implementation that carries a payload. See {@link Trie} for
- * technologies: http://cr.yp.to/bib/1975/aho.pdf
+ * details on usage.
- * <p>
  *
+ * <p>
  * The payload trie adds the possibility to specify emitted payloads for each
  * added keyword.
+ * </p>
  * 
  * @author Daniel Beck
- * @param <T> The type of the supplied of the payload
+ * @param <T> The type of the supplied of the payload.
  */
 public class PayloadTrie<T> {
 

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/Trie.java

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ import org.ahocorasick.trie.handler.PayloadEmitDelegateHandler;
 import org.ahocorasick.trie.handler.StatefulEmitHandler;
 
 /**
- * Based on the Aho-Corasick white paper, Bell technologies:
+ * Based on the <a href="http://cr.yp.to/bib/1975/aho.pdf">Aho-Corasick white
- * http://cr.yp.to/bib/1975/aho.pdf
+ * paper</a>, from Bell technologies.
  *
  * @author Robert Bor
  */

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/handler/PayloadEmitDelegateHandler.java

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import org.ahocorasick.trie.Emit;
 import org.ahocorasick.trie.PayloadEmit;
 
 /**
- * Convenience wrapper class that delegates every method to a EmitHandler.
+ * Convenience wrapper class that delegates every method to an
+ * instance of {@link EmitHandler}.
  */
 public class PayloadEmitDelegateHandler implements PayloadEmitHandler<String> {
 

src/main/java/org/ahocorasick/trie/handler/StatefulPayloadEmitDelegateHandler.java

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import org.ahocorasick.trie.PayloadEmit;
 
 /**
  * Convenience wrapper class that delegates every method to a
- * StatefullPayloadEmitHandler.
+ * {@link StatefulPayloadEmitHandler}.
  */
 public class StatefulPayloadEmitDelegateHandler implements StatefulPayloadEmitHandler<String> {