I'm quite happily writing JDK 1.1 code at the moment, but there are a few
shortcoming in the javadoc tool that I find highly annoying and that are
remedied in the new version coming with 1.2. (Two of the big points are
package or project level comments and the ability to link into an existing
set of javadoc generated docs from an earlier run of javadoc. For a more
complete list of improvements see Sun's web pages.)
On the Solaris machines that I use, I've installed JDK 1.2beta4 in a dummy
directory and aliased just the javadoc command so that I'm now using all the
normal JDK 1.1 stuff except that I'm using 1.2beta4 javadoc, which of course
works fine with 1.1 source code.
I'd really like to get the 1.2beta4 version of javadoc running on my Linux
machine as well. Is there any easy way for me to do this? Sun doesn't provide
the sources for the tools, like javadoc, do they? How do the great folks
who've done these awesome Linux ports of the whole JDK do the porting of the
tools in general?
-Karl
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Karl Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/
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