Erik Hanson wrote:
> Richard H.C. Seabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >What do you consider your class bible for Java 2?
> >I keep running into classes and methods I have forgotten or didn't know
> >much about anyway, resulting in dumping a class' methods to find out their
> >activation. I'm using 4 texts for reference at the moment and none of 'em
> >seems to have anywhere near the full story on ALL the jdk1.2 classes.
>
> An old version of Symantec's Visual Cafe came with a WinHelp version of the
> 1.1 API. It is about 100000% better than browsing the API in HTML form, even
> the new form. You can search instantly by class or method name. It's just
> great.
>
> Unfortunately, it's only 1.1, not 1.2. And you have to own Cafe. And you
> have to be using Windows.
>
JavaSoft's web site has a link to a third party site that has WinHelp formatted
files for JDK 1.2.2 (plus 1.1.8, 1.0.2, Swing, the Java Lanugage Tutorial, and
some other stuff).
http://java.sun.com/docs/windows_format.html
Didn't see any reference to WinHelp format stuff or any of the other APIs
(servlet, JavaMail, etc.), though.
>
> One of the project I'd love to do but I'm sure I never will is a Java app
> that browses and searches the API. It wouldn't be too hard; just import the
> HTML and index it, then have a simple search feature. But I've got a few
> million other projects to do first...
>
If you ever do get around to this, you might find it easier to write your own
doclets for the JavaDoc tool. You could preformat the API pages the way you
like, for easy loading into a Swing-based GUI application/applet -- as well as
build the index. You have to start with the source to do this (it's included
in the JDK download), but at least you wouldn't get messed up every time the
JavaDoc HTML format was changed in future versions.
For searching (I guess we're assuming that JavaDoc's index does not count :-),
it's pretty easy to add a small search engine program to your web server (I use
a program called SWISH-E from the Metalabs site, plus Apache -- anyone know of
a good servlet-based search engine?), and point it at the JavaDoc API
directory. Then, you can have a typical search engine type search interface,
in addition to the hyperlinks.
>
> Erik
>
Craig McClanahan
>
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