On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:58:07 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I'll take a look.
>
> I think it helps to keep them separate ... and the text is adjacent.
> 
> "Other Doclets" is somewhat more about why you might not want to write a 
> doclet these days ... it's addressing the historical past where there were 
> lots of doclets, a lot of which did not even look at doc comments ... i.e 
> they were using the Doclet API as an early Language Model API.

Fine with me. Your explanation makes sense, another bit of history learned.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6914

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