diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 55b3e327d..c5da4eb46 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@
 						org.springframework.batch.sample.*
 					</excludePackageNames>
 					<overview>${project.basedir}/spring-batch-docs/src/main/javadoc/overview.html</overview>
+					<detectJavaApiLink>false</detectJavaApiLink>
 				</configuration>
 				<executions>
 					<execution>
diff --git a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/avro/builder/AvroItemReaderBuilder.java b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/avro/builder/AvroItemReaderBuilder.java
index 9ae3c8ef1..fb080f203 100644
--- a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/avro/builder/AvroItemReaderBuilder.java
+++ b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/avro/builder/AvroItemReaderBuilder.java
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ public class AvroItemReaderBuilder<T> {
 	/**
 	 * Disable or enable reading an embedded Avro schema. True by default.
 	 * @param embeddedSchema set to false to if the input does not contain an Avro schema.
+	 * @return The current instance of the builder.   
 	 */
 	public AvroItemReaderBuilder<T> embeddedSchema(boolean embeddedSchema) {
 		this.embeddedSchema = embeddedSchema;