On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:22:12 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I think it helps to keep them separate ... and the text is adjacent.
>> 
>> "Other Doclets" is somewhat more about why you might not want to write a 
>> doclet these days ... it's addressing the historical past where there were 
>> lots of doclets, a lot of which did not even look at doc comments ... i.e 
>> they were using the Doclet API as an early Language Model API.
>
> Fine with me. Your explanation makes sense, another bit of history learned.

I'd forgotten, until now, there is a more detailed version of this text on the 
OpenJDK website.  I'll leave all the text here, but add an `@see`

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6914

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