[Xdoclet-devel] [RT] Persisting parsed data?

[Bart Guijt]

Hi,   The parsing task of (x)javadoc takes a long time. It parses all files passed in and then some subtasks (e.g. remoteInterface) decide to generate files by comparing last modified dates. However, it seems that the parsing part takes the most time and I think it would be very worthwile to optimize the parsing part by loading already parsed data. xjavadoc simply reads all javadoc data, persists this and whenever a sourcefile is to be parsed again, xjavadoc checks the persisted data to decide whether to parse and so only parses changed sourcefiles. A little like JavaMake does, I guess.   Are there any thoughts on this?   Ciao,   BG