Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-16 Thread Tim Ellison
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Tim Ellison wrote: Loenko, Mikhail Y wrote: snip I agree it is good practice to document the implementation of some non-API code for developers. Some? why not all? ... because by definition the non-API code does not require documentation for the user. Where

RE: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-16 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Loenko. On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:32 +0300, Loenko, Mikhail Y wrote: I think Classpath is a little bit different story. It is not a Java(tm) so a developer who writes for Classpath has to validate with Classpath docs whether his code is going to work. No, the goal is to be a free compatible

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Tim Ellison wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Tim Ellison wrote: Loenko, Mikhail Y wrote: snip I agree it is good practice to document the implementation of some non-API code for developers. Some? why not all? ... because by definition the non-API code does not require documentation for

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-13 Thread Tim Ellison
who will volunteer to write the docs for us. I sense that there is an underlying reason for the objection to writing JavaDoc ;-) Do you really *want* URLs to Sun's website, or do you think that writing the doc will be too much effort, or ... ? How about writing it in multiple languages if that's

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Loenko, Mikhail Y wrote: Well, I'll try to summarize what we have There are three types of methods: 1. Methods that are part of the API, they are specified, they follow the Sun's spec and we have nothing to add. 2. Methods that are part of the API and we have something to add (ex.: the spec

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-13 Thread Tom Tromey
Mikhail == Loenko, Mikhail Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mikhail I think Classpath is a little bit different story. It is not Mikhail a Java(tm) so a developer who writes for Classpath has to Mikhail validate with Classpath docs whether his code is going to Mikhail work. The real reason we write

RE: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-12 Thread Loenko, Mikhail Y
, Mikhail Loenko Intel Middleware Products Division -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:21 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Writing JavaDoc Sorry, I misunderstood. So your option #3 is not copying the JavaDoc

Writing JavaDoc (was: Re: [RESULT] ( Was Re: [VOTE] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-16 (Intel's contrib of security code for classlib)))

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Ellison
Loenko, Mikhail Y wrote: Thanks for accepting the contribution There's a bit of things that come out of this, like the com.intel.drl.spec_ref javadoc tag that we should convert, and such. What would be the best for those javadocs? We can have 3 possible options: 1. Copy-paste from the

RE: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-10 Thread Loenko, Mikhail Y
docs rather then official spec. Thanks, Mikhail Loenko Intel Middleware Products Division -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:26 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Writing JavaDoc (was: Re: [RESULT] ( Was Re: [VOTE

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Ellison
Middleware Products Division -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:26 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Writing JavaDoc (was: Re: [RESULT] ( Was Re: [VOTE] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-16 (Intel's contrib

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
Zsejki Sorin Miklós wrote: I have absolutely no experience with such things, but I'm wondering how was this done with Tomcat, for example. They have the servlet API built from their source code, and the javadoc seems to be word by word identical to the specification. Is the servlet

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
Tim Ellison wrote: Sorry, I misunderstood. So your option #3 is not copying the JavaDoc and redistributing it, but documenting links to the Sun site. IMHO, creating a set of JavaDoc that contains links to Sun's existing JavaDoc is unlikely to appeal to most people -- the package/type/method

RE: Writing JavaDoc (was: Re: [RESULT] ( Was Re: [VOTE] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-16 (Intel's contrib of security code for classlib)))

2006-01-10 Thread Magnusson, Geir
inline -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:26 AM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Writing JavaDoc (was: Re: [RESULT] ( Was Re: [VOTE] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-16 (Intel's contrib of security code

Re: Writing JavaDoc

2006-01-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: Zsejki Sorin Miklós wrote: I have absolutely no experience with such things, but I'm wondering how was this done with Tomcat, for example. They have the servlet API built from their source code, and the javadoc seems to be word by word