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| Summary: | No way to add Javadoc to freerform project | ||
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| Product: | projects | Reporter: | John Jullion-ceccarelli <johnjullion> |
| Component: | Ant | Assignee: | Petr Hrebejk <phrebejk> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | blocker | CC: | jrojcek |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 4.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 42682 | ||
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Description
John Jullion-ceccarelli
2004-07-12 17:15:58 UTC
If you just add a JAR your classpath that matches a defined Java library, it should work. Yes but this is not obvious at all to the user - it wasn't even obvious to the HIE who wrote the spec or the docs writer documenting it :-). In the user's mind we've established the Library Manager/Java Class Libraries as the mechanism for adding Javadoc and source code to a project. Why not carry that over to freeform projects? I have to admit that it really isn't straightforward. I suggest we allow the user to add also libraries to classpath. Also using the JDK (its sources and Javadoc) in freeform project is problematic. It's backwards. You already have the classpath for a freeform project defined, you are describing it. If you want to associate Javadoc and/or source with an entry, you can create a Java Library with a matching JAR. We *could* permit the GUI customizer for the freeform project to let you pick a Java Library rather than a raw JAR for a classpath entry, but I think this would rarely be used correctly, and is more likely to cause confusion over what the freeform customizer does (describe an existing project defined and structured independently of the IDE) than be helpful. Re. JDKs - a bit different. If you explicitly specify a boot classpath (currently supported only in project.xml), it works just as for the classpath - if the path matches a registered JDK, that JDK's docs and sources will be used. Otherwise, the first JDK with a matching spec version (1.4, etc.) in the Platform Manager will be used for finding Javadoc, sources, and an exact list of classes to use in code completion. So, a question: If I put a JAR into the classpath of regular J2SE project and a library containing that JAR already exists, is the javadoc and sources used for this JAR in that project? Yes, they should be. x *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 47498 *** verified duplicate |