Create docs without having source files?

Can I create a Javadoc documentation with only having the class files and not the source files?

[102 byte] By [goldgoldgolda] at [2007-9-27 9:35:23]

# 1

Javadocs are generated by looking for information contained within comments. Comments are removed from the .class file. Therefore, no.

mperemsky5a at 2007-7-8 22:49:42 >

# 2

Well, you can create javadoc out of simply the declarations

found in .class files, as with javap. Javadoc does not normally allow that,

but there may be some programs out there that do it.

Due to the following bug, Javadoc 1.4.0 actually does do that if you

put the .class files on -classpath and pass the package names in

with no source files. Let us know if it works.

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4548768.html

-Doug Kramer

Javadoc team

dkramera at 2007-7-8 22:49:42 >

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