Henri Yandell wrote:
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Dmitri Plotnikov wrote:
Juozas,
Good idea. I believe we should have this mechanism. I saw something
similar in WebLogic's ejbgen tool. There you encode metadata in
javadoc-style comments and then the tool uses it to generate various
Java and XML source files.
You mean xdoclet? They're pretty big over at sourceforge.
I need to start reading this thread, having to save it all up atm.
XDoclet, QDox They both do the same thing.
However, what are you planning on doing with it?
Here is what we are doing in Avalon land. We are using QDox (which is
faster BTW) to generate the meta information for the components. We wrote
an ANT task to read the javadoc tags and create new XML files to describe
the metainfo for the component.
What would be better is to permanently associate the meta info directly
with the implementation/interface classes. Using a new MetaInfo enabled
ClassLoader to pull the meta info programatically from the Class itself.
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