Aaron M. Renn wrote:
>
> Ian D. Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > -- Figure out an easy method of generating online Javadocs from our
> > > code. This will probably involve lots of misc HTML fixes.
> >
> > I've started developing a perl-based implementation of the javadoc
> > utility (for the task of parsing text files and dynamically generating
> > HTML, Perl seems a more appropriate choice than Java). Is this the sort
> > of thing you'ld be interested in?
>
> We do need a free version of the Javadoc utility. A perl version would
> be nice. However, it would most likely not support the doclet interface
> for people to write their own custom output generators.
While certainly non-trivial, this would be doable. It would require
developing some sort of reflection mechanism, mapping Java classes to
Perl modules. I've already written a class parser, so the foundation is
there.
However, my primary goal is to develope a utility that "doesn't suck",
that generates HTML documentation from both .class files and Java
source.
Sun's implementation (at least on a P-75) fails the first two tests.
Ian
