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Build fails with Java 9 #5102

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Java 9 is due to be released in ten days. Checkstyle currently fails to compile if a user is using Java 9.

First up, JavadocTool and other tools.jar things have been moved and/or removed:

[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] /home/faux/code/checkstyle/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/TokenTypesDocletTest.java:[44,29] cannot find symbol
  symbol:   class JavadocTool
  location: package com.sun.tools.javadoc

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