diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
index 480b9913ce..ac1d35d497 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
         run: .github/scripts/deadlock-detector.sh
 
       - name: Build
-        run: ./gradlew check --stacktrace -x :smoke-tests:test
+        run: ./gradlew build --stacktrace -x :smoke-tests:test
 
       - name: Upload deadlock detector artifacts
         if: always()
diff --git a/gradle/java.gradle b/gradle/java.gradle
index 5108e24fdb..0b5c82e6a7 100644
--- a/gradle/java.gradle
+++ b/gradle/java.gradle
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ java {
 
 tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
   options.release.set(project.ext.release.majorVersion.toInteger())
+  options.compilerArgs.add("-Werror")
 }
 //Groovy and Scala compilers don't actually understand --release option
 tasks.withType(GroovyCompile) {
@@ -136,6 +137,8 @@ normalization {
 
 javadoc {
   options.addStringOption('Xdoclint:none', '-quiet')
+  // non-standard option to fail on warnings, see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200363
+  options.addStringOption('Xwerror', '-quiet')
 
   doFirst {
     if (project.ext.has("apiLinks")) {
diff --git a/instrumentation/apache-camel-2.20/javaagent/apache-camel-2.20-javaagent.gradle b/instrumentation/apache-camel-2.20/javaagent/apache-camel-2.20-javaagent.gradle
index 14139d9d50..88bb41cec7 100644
--- a/instrumentation/apache-camel-2.20/javaagent/apache-camel-2.20-javaagent.gradle
+++ b/instrumentation/apache-camel-2.20/javaagent/apache-camel-2.20-javaagent.gradle
@@ -51,3 +51,14 @@ tasks.withType(Test) {
   jvmArgs "-Dotel.instrumentation.apache-camel.experimental-span-attributes=true"
   jvmArgs "-Dotel.instrumentation.aws-sdk.experimental-span-attributes=true"
 }
+
+javadoc {
+  dependencies {
+    // without adding this dependency, javadoc fails:
+    //   warning: unknown enum constant XmlAccessType.PROPERTY
+    //   reason: class file for javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType not found
+    // due to usage of org.apache.camel.model.RouteDefinition in CamelTracingService
+    // which has jaxb class-level annotations
+    compileOnly 'javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.3.1'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/exporters/zipkin/ZipkinSpanExporterProperties.java b/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/exporters/zipkin/ZipkinSpanExporterProperties.java
index bcf98173fc..e8b63b1124 100644
--- a/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/exporters/zipkin/ZipkinSpanExporterProperties.java
+++ b/instrumentation/spring/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/spring/autoconfigure/exporters/zipkin/ZipkinSpanExporterProperties.java
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
 /**
  * Configuration for {@link io.opentelemetry.exporter.zipkin.ZipkinSpanExporter}.
  *
- * <p>Get Exporter Service Name {@link #getServiceName()}
- *
  * <p>Get Exporter Endpoint
  */
 @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "opentelemetry.trace.exporter.zipkin")
diff --git a/javaagent-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/api/Java8BytecodeBridge.java b/javaagent-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/api/Java8BytecodeBridge.java
index b65a58d68b..e425b62bbd 100644
--- a/javaagent-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/api/Java8BytecodeBridge.java
+++ b/javaagent-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/api/Java8BytecodeBridge.java
@@ -5,12 +5,8 @@
 
 package io.opentelemetry.javaagent.instrumentation.api;
 
-import io.opentelemetry.api.GlobalOpenTelemetry;
-import io.opentelemetry.api.OpenTelemetry;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Span;
-import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Tracer;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
-import io.opentelemetry.context.propagation.ContextPropagators;
 
 /**
  * A helper for accessing methods that rely on new Java 8 bytecode features such as calling a static
@@ -35,13 +31,4 @@ public final class Java8BytecodeBridge {
   public static Span spanFromContext(Context context) {
     return Span.fromContext(context);
   }
-
-  public static ContextPropagators getGlobalPropagators() {
-    return GlobalOpenTelemetry.getPropagators();
-  }
-
-  /** Calls {@link OpenTelemetry#getGlobalTracer(String)}. */
-  public static Tracer getGlobalTracer(String name) {
-    return GlobalOpenTelemetry.getTracer(name);
-  }
 }