I am using Eclipse to build a small Java project. I am wanting to include in my Java documentation the project overview, this is so that the index page contains information about the project title, its purpose etc.
I know that I can include an ovwerview.html page in my project and have done.
As per the Java Documentation, I have also read that I need to use an -overview option to activate the merging of my overview.html into the index page for the Java Doc:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/unix/javadoc.html#CHDGDJAH
However, I do not know how to use this. On the third page of Eclipse's JavaDoc wizard is the option to include VM options and so I entred -overview "src/overview.html", but this had no effect. I tried just -overview "overview.html" but this had no effect either.
How do I do this?
In Eclipse JavaDoc wizard, you should have an "overview" field on the top of the third page.
If so, you should be able to manually select it and then generate the javadoc.
If not, consider updating your JavaDoc plugin for Eclipse, if possible.
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When you start Eclipse up you have a few programs (not sure what to call them) at the bottom like Javadoc, Console, Declaration etc.
I want to know what Javadoc does because I don't really understand how it works.
I have searched online but it does not make much sense to me as I am a beginner.
Javadoc is a documentation tool which defines a standard format for such comments, and which can generate HTML files to view the documentation from a web broswer. You can generate JavaDoc in Eclipse or NetBeans IDE in order to read it via your browser.
Check the official documentation of Oracle: Java SE Overview
As others have written: javadoc is the standard way of putting documentation into your source code (for later processing).
That javadoc view within eclipse simply displays the javadoc of the element that you currently select within the Java editor.
So: just put some javadoc before your class and before some methods and experiment with what that view is showing you.
The JavaDoc is a tool to create a documentation. In combination with the Java annotations and Java Doc-Comments you can create your own documentation for your code.
Java Doc-Comments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javadoc
The Java-Doc Tool in Eclipse can create a good looking documentation like the normal Java utils doc. This -> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/
I'm wanting to style Swing components with CSS and saw this as my best bet. But I'm having a bit of a problem just finding out if I can use it with Eclipse?
Is it also practical for a medium sized project, or should I be looking for another way to style components?
Here is the Document for your answer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19bYF0z5sNiwT-zL5VAZBY1CM0MgHA6pqzZ8dP22llvc/edit?usp=sharing
I am not an expert on a subject of Swing and especially JAXX, but I know a thing or two about Eclipse. If this question is still relevant, you can take my answer as a basis to do some more research.
I searched an Eclipse Marketplace and googled a bit but found nothing about JAXX Eclipse support or plugins. If you know french you can check project's documentation. If there is nothing about tool support in the documentation, I suggest you ask the creators directly.
Eclipse gives you some tools you can use to work with file types JAXX uses. From what I have read here, *.jaxx files are just XML files and stylesheets are just a CSS. I suggest you install XML and CSS support through Eclipse Web Tools Platform and associate *.jaxx files with XML editor either when you first open one of the files with such extension or through File Associations Preferences. In order to compile *.jaxx files you can configure Eclipse Project Builder or use an External Tools launcher.
By the way, have you considered using JavaFX?
#duemir
I have mentioned same thing in my Answer Document.
Please check the Above answer by Me (Jugal Thakkar)
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Go to your Link and Check the Resource in that page and try to go Official Website of JAXX.
You are not able to Go on Official Project Page (www.jaxxframework.org/).
I have mentioned all things in My Document so please first go through that.
I can conclude that on This Question.
1) This Project is not Officially Working. because you can't open official Project Website.
so you are not able to access docs and other stuff.
I have written extensive JavaDoc documentation on my application, and added lots of useful info at overview.html and package.html files (including links on the former to illustrations in doc-files/). Maven's Javadoc plugin nicely uses the standard javadoc tool to generate the classic JavaDoc frameset, but now I need to generate a PDF with the whole documentation.
AurigaDoclet generates very pretty PDFs, and I was able to make DocFlex work also. However, both ignore my overview.html and package.html files (tried both inside and outside Maven - the PDF will be a once-only thing, since I'd rather have the HTMLs on the long run).
Does anyone know how to make AurigaDoclet recoginze my non-Java files? Or, alternatively, another to generate a decent-looking PDF from either the source code or the JavaDoc-generated HTML?
Nailed it. After trying all the possible tools to generate straight from the source, I returned to HTMLDOC. It is not JavaDoc-aware, but it is so well built that a few tweaks are enough to make it generate a pretty usable PDF.
Here goes a step-by-step description of how I did it:
Download the software on the releases page;
Generate your traditional HTML docs in your preferred way (Ant, Maven, command-line javadoc - your choice);
The GUI is nice, but adding all files manually can be cumbersome, so just create a .book file with Document Type set to "Web Page", add one of the HTML files from your generated javadoc's root folder (e.g., overview-summary.html, anyone will do, it's just for reference on step 5). On the Output tab select the PDF format and set a name for it, and add other options to your heart's content (logos, colors, lots of cool stuff here). Save this project (say, myjavadocpdf.book) and close the GUI
Generate a list of all HTML files in your javadoc. I did it with Cygwin's find command (my DOS/cmd shell days are long over), but you can do anything you want, as long as you get a file list. In my case a find . | grep html$ | sort -r > files.txt did the trick;
For Windows users, dir /s/b *.html > files.txt should do the same (but keep in mind you may have to replace \s with /s if they appear like so on the next step).
Open the .book file generated on step 3 in your favorite pure text editor (as a programmer you should have strong opinions on that, so will keep my opinions to myself - NOT ;-) ) and append the list generated on step 4 to this .book file (it keeps the list of files at the end, making life really easy). Don't forget to fix the relative paths, if needed with a global search/replace (that's why you needed at least one file added on step 3 - to see which file path pattern htmldoc expects);
Now you should sort the files in a convenient order. I put my overview first, then package descriptions and each class, then the full index, and everything else at the end. Remember that any file you delete will become an external (hence broken) link, so choose wisely;
Save your .book file and re-open it on HTMLDOC. Voila: all files added and sorted. Click on generate. That's it!
You may want to fiddle with images (hint: use HTML width/height, not style/css). In the end, the resulting file is surprisingly good: nice looking and fully navigable for internal and external links. Impressive when you consider that the tool is not Java(Doc) aware at all...
EDIT: software is now free from original author; updated links, thank you #mohammed
According to the Sun JavaDoc FAQ, there's a couple of options -- mostly free, with one or two commercial offerings as well. Check it out at http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/faq/index.html#print.
AurigaDoclet fails to process package.html.
For a fix see my comment at https://sourceforge.net/projects/aurigadoclet/forums/forum/339169/topic/1572199/index/page/1
If this question was bumped anyways, I can use this to link my ltxdoclet project.
This creates from the source (by being a JavaDoc plugin) documentation in LaTeX format, which you then can pass through PdfLaTeX to produce a PDF.
Optionally it also can include pretty-printed source code.
I looked through this list of “Hidden” features/tricks for Eclipse?", but it doesn't have anything for web-developement (jsp). A very useful list of tricks for a general eclipse user!
I work with jsp pages in Eclipse Ganymede, and I would like to find out a list of shortcuts commonly used to facilitate development. I always seem to struggle with the following, among other issues:
always traverse a directory tree to find a file (no Ctrl-shift-t just like java classes)
search is always ends up with either ctrl-f or searching the entire project
I would appreciate if you guys list tricks for eclipse, specifically for web-development (jsp/tomcat)
I am a noob, so don't hesitate to list anything even if you think it is TOO NOOB!!!
Thanks
my favorite:
ctrl + shift + r will open a resource dialog like the type dialog
Refer 30 Useful Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts for Java Programmers for more.
First of all, be certain you use the Java EE version of Eclipse.
Edit:
Use Ctrl-Shift-R to locate a given resource (also known as "file").
You can use F3 on java identifiers in <%...%> to go to their definition.
The best tip I can give you is to learn JSF or similar so your JSP files only contain tags, and not java snippets.
I use the MyEclipse plugin. I have been very happy with it and it has a lot of jsp support.
MyEclipse
Get the Web Tools Platform plugin. I think it's included by default in the Jave EE edition of Eclipse, but you can also install it separately. To see if it's installed in your Eclipse, open the Help|About screen and look for a "WTP" icon.
It doesn't provide any web-specific shortcuts, but it will give you syntax highlighting and some auto-completion for HTML and CSS files, and for JSP files, enable many of the navigation features that you're used to from Java editing. (Such as Ctrl+Space to import a class and F3 to see its definition.)
Regardless of whether you have WTP installed or not:
Use Ctrl+Shift+R to open files; this works much like Ctrl+Shift+T for opening classes.
Use Ctrl+H to search the whole of your project, or parts of it. If you pick the "File search" tab, you can specify file patterns (such as *.jsp) to search in. If you click on a folder in the Package Explorer, you can select "Selected resources" from the "Scope" box to search only in that folder (and its sub-folders).
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What tools/websites do you use to read JavaDocs?
I currently use Firefox with 20+ tabs open when working on a J2EE project to have all the documentation available which is not very usable, is eating too much memory and is not searchable.
What I would expect from such a tool/website:
Aggregate JavaDocs from different locations
Direct access to types like Ctrl+T in Eclipse or similar
Fulltext search
Cross referencing between all the Java libraries I've chosen
For a tool: offline support
Speed
not mandatory:
possibility to annotate things
support for different versions of a library (+ diffing ?)
IDE integration
Edit:
Thanks for your answers. I knew most of the sites but gave them another try. Here is my judgement:
built-in Eclipse/IDE features
tightly integrated
offline/online support
javadoconline.com (no longer maintained)
works
clean looks
finds matches in more than one version of the api and allows easy switching
simple but working
fast
jdocs (offline)
seems very sophisticated
sometimes slow
some recent versions of libraries seem to be missing (Seam 2.0.0, Hibernate Validators) but it looks like you can add them yourself
IDE integration (not tested)
wiki style comments to each item
docjar.com
works
fast
cluttered UI
javadoc_isearch
greasemonkey script for firefox which makes navigating javadocs easier
works smooth and perfectly
JavaDoc jar can be unzipped directly. In theory any released javadocs can be downloaded and viewed offline.
download directly from maven repository. For example: http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/googlecode/objectify/objectify/5.0.3/objectify-5.0.3-javadoc.jar
Now you get objectify-5.0.3-javadoc.jar, rename the file to objectify-5.0.3-javadoc.zip
use your favourite unzip tool to extract it, now you have a folder objectify-5.0.3-javadoc
double click index.html will open the index page on your default browser.
If you use Eclipse, it offers support for Javadocs. For example, hovering your mouse over a method call will display a tooltip showing you the Javadoc for that method. Documentation for the core Java classes are supported out of the box. However, if your project uses any additional libraries (JAR files), some configuration is required in order to plug their Javadocs into Eclipse.
Go to the "Java Build Path" section of your project properties.
Go to the "Libraries" tab and click the "plus" icon next to the JAR file.
Click "Javadoc location", then the "Edit..." button.
This will let you specify where the Javadocs for that JAR are located. It will even let you specify a website URL, so you don't have to download the Javadocs yourself!
You can find Stanford University's JavaDoc here.
I wrote my own tool for this. Acording to my colleagues it is best they seen.
It indexes by lucene once, and run you small server on background, so yo browse javadocs (pydocs, perldocs..) like in browser. It allows also separate libraries per language so searchses like "biginteger" or simialr dont go wrong.
https://github.com/judovana/JavadocOfflineSearch/releases
I use http://www.teria.com/~koseki/tools/gm/javadoc_isearch/ for FF. Lets me easily browse other libraries as well.
Eclipse integrates well with Javadoc and has an HTML-like viewer for it. You can attach source and javadoc to binaries that will show up when you select a class.
Something like this may be useful?
http://www.docjar.com/
Personally, I've never had a problem with the built-in javadoc browsing tools offered by my IDE.
Currently, I use IntelliJ Idea -- Ctl-Q brings up the javadoc for the method under the cursor, with the hyperlinks to other parts of the documentation functional.
I would imagine NetBeans and Eclipse offer similar functionality.
Hm... How about:
http://edu.netbeans.org/quicktour/javadoc.html - NetBeans supports the Javadoc standard for Java documentation - both viewing it and generating it.
http://globaldocs.zeevbelkin.com/ - This application allows to conveniently browse, over the Internet and local filesystem, multiple javadoc sets, using a single packages/classes hierarchy tree and a searchable index. The viewer supports local and remote docsets (the local docsets, packed to JAR/ZIP-files also are supported).
I prefer NetBeans as it get JavaDoc from Maven ~/.m2 directory automatically...
This plug in for Firefox and Chrome is useful for quickly finding package and class names, though it's not a full text search: https://code.google.com/p/javadoc-search-frame/
Eclipse is a best way to see the javadocs. Hovering the mouse on method or any declaration you will get automatically generated javadocs by eclipse.
Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.nl/) might fit the bill.
EDIT: I may have misread your question, doxygen is a tool to generate documentation and models based off your code and javadoc.