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As a Java developer that has passed through several IDEs before reaching the promised land of Eclipse (;P), one of the most appealing features for me was the lightning-fast incremental compiler that makes automatic building possible. I would like to see a similar incremental builder for Javadoc added to the platform, so consciencious developers that take the time to write good quality Javadoc comments in their code can see the fruits of their labour immediately. The Javadoc View that is already part of the platform could be used to display the actual HTML built by the Javadoc builder, as well as to display the external Javadoc of libraries that have had their Javadoc location set in the project properties. The current contents of the Javadoc View are not bad, but not a very faithful representation of what you would see in the real Javadocs. The builder in Eclipse now already includes functionality that covers most Javadoc errors/warnings - so either these could be extracted out into the new incremental Javadoc builder, or the incremental Javadoc building functionality could be added to the current incremental Java builder.
