Description Andreas Zimmer 2005-07-05 16:13:53 EDT

FEATURE/ENHANCEMENT REQUEST in the name of the jcoffee development team 
(www.jcoffee.com)

We would like to request a clear distinction between JAVADOC formatting
and Java COMMENT formatting. Javadoc formatting makes much sense most of
the times and can be done in a standardized way whereas we believe comment 
formatting may often not make sense and is difficult to standardize and we 
would wish we could just switch it off (but still retain Javadoc formatting).

By the way - if this feature would be provided and COMMENT formatting could 
then be switched off independently from Javadoc formatting, the COMMENTS shall 
then really NOT BE TOUCHED AT ALL, even not with regard to indentation or 
other beautyfying. This is even true for such obvious things like inserting 
blanks in a comment like '/*comment*/' (--> '/* comment */') because we use 
simple comments for our code generator tags (like '/*>*/' and other similar 
ones) and such tags shall not be touched by a formatter.

The content and structure of simple Java comments isn't standardized like 
Javadoc comments - therefore we believe it could not easily be formatted in a 
standardized way as is the case for Javadoc.

Thanks for consideration of this feature/enhancement request.

Andreas