There's been a request on our Wiki for a combined javadoc for a while.
Part of the request is that we improve our cross-referencing, which I
think we can easily do, but will take a bit of planning.

However, the other part is for a combined front-end (I think). I've spent
today hacking around a bit and have come up with:

http://www.apache.org/~bayard/multidoc/index.html

It's pretty easy maintenance, just give it a bunch of urls. Sorry
CLI/FileUpload, your javadoc were not in the usual Maven place and I
haven't tried hunting down correct ones yet.

There's still effort needed to ensure we give it the right urls. Many of
the ones I quickly generated are in fact for developer javadoc, not the
released javadoc. It'd also be nice to modify the format somehow to get
more than one version of the same API in there.

It's written/hacked in Java. I started to think about it in Perl, but I
prefer my Java scraping API too much to have to deal with something that
tries to parse HTML. It merely acts as a front end to existing javadoc; so
should be easy to grow to cover other parts of Jakarta/Apache (ECS/ORO?).

Currently it's all static, so after a bit of cleaning it would quite
easily be something that could be hooked up to the Commons site. I'd like
to put a dynamic search in there, but that can come later.

Anyway, any thoughts and opinions would be gratefully received,

Hen


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