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Using the Java Platform Manager I added the ZIPs 1. jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip 2. j2eeri-1_4-doc-api.zip as downloaded from java.sun.com to the Javadoc register tab of the default platform, but searching the javadocs in the IDE does not work. I had to unzip them and add the folders docs/api from the first file and apidocs from the second file. To me it looks like there is no ZIP file scanning at the moment that searches for subdirs that contain javadocs. Without such a routine the possibility to add ZIPs here is somewhat confusing.
This should work.
Works for jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip but it does not work for the j2eeri-1_4-doc-api.zip. The j2eeri-1_4-doc-api.zip is not a part of the JDK, the platform does not support this javadoc. But it seems to me a legal enhancement to extend the platform to allow it, anyway the platform should at least print a warning if the javadoc is not supported.
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev
This issue still exists in NB 6.1 and also for jar files. Strangely, the javadocs that I had added for Platform (the JDK 1.6 docs.jar from Apple) was scanned fine, even though it contains the docs in a docs/api subfolder. Another jar file with documentation that I tried to add through the Library manager only led to an error that index-all.html or an indexfiles folder had to be on the top-level (the jar again had a /docs/api/<actual docs> folder structure). Are there 2 different scanners at work here?