Hello All,
About a year ago, I wrote asking if anyone would be interested in a plugin
that would satisfy the following:
1) Generate javadoc HTML without a javadoc.exe on your path (avoid having
to launch/wait on the OS's javadoc.exe process)
2) Provide an
extension point to allow a client to define custom HTML handlers for their
custom tags
3) Provide a codebase that is extensible by clients to write
their own javadoc documents or customize the way that the HTML document is
generated
4) Available under an open EPL license
I mocked up such a tool and proved that it is possible to use the JDT
to accomplish the tasks. I would say that it is 60% of the way to meeting
its goals. Mostly it is just lacking performance optimizations and 100% of the
HTML documentation features of the javadoc.exe. The results already appear very
similar to the HTML generated by the javadoc.exe with the standard doclet.
First of all, I was wondering whether there are any users interested in
this tool?
I don't have the time at the moment to maintain this tool. Is there anyone
interested in taking the code and making it polished enough to be part of the
JDT in the future?
Some interesting future possibilities for this tool:
- Eclipse PDE entity support (Extensions, Extension Points and
Dependencies seemlessly integrated into the Javadoc experience)
- Incremental rendering (the builder could simply regenerate only those
HTML files that are affected by changes to java source or javadoc)
Thanks,
