This is to announce that I have nearly finished a
drop-in replacement for the Sun Javadoc tool which
I would like to contribute to the Classpath project.
Of course, it was written hands-off: I have not seen
the corresponding Sun source code any time before.
What I have is only the tool itself: scan source code
and deliver structure and comment information to the
Doclet API. A 'Standard Doclet' is not included.
However, a year ago I have written a tool named
TexiDoclet (http://texidoclet.sourceforge.net)
which outputs Info pages, with Emacs users in mind.
Note that TexiDoclet is still labelled Alpha, because
it lacks testing on a broad base. Still, it can produce
quiet useful results.
Using the Javadoc drop-in and TexiDoclet, you will be
able to generate Java documentation on a 100% free
toolchain, in Info format.
The drop-in implements all functionality as of
Javadoc 1.3, but some secondary issues like warning
messages and a few command line switches are still
pending. I plan to have this stuff fixed and release
a preview package in approx. ten days.
BTW, I am rather new to alternative VMs and I have a
couple of questions which I think should not be
discussed here. I would be grateful if some
classpath.org hacker or some free-VM expert could
come back to me.
Julian Scheid
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