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Which is implemented as a doclet does provide missing @since detection functionality. Mike On Feb 7 2013, at 10:29 , Martin Buchholz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>wrote: > >> On 07/02/2013 17:40, Martin Buchholz wrote: >> >>> Alternatively, maybe this is a job for an annotation processor. >> >> > IIRC, we considered that 6 years ago. It might be possible, but consider > that you need to diff multiple jdk implementations, and the annotation > processor needs to be able to grok javadoc comments. Also, there are no > "annotations" being processed, so it's weird to use an annotation > processor. Writing a javadoc doclet is another approach that might work.
