Overview Text BELOW package table

There's currently no option to put the text above the table.

We have an open request at:

4649116: Add option to include full package description at top, before interface table

<http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4649116.html>

Perhaps we'll be able to get to this in the next version.

If you are adventuresome, you could download the source release

and make a small change to the source code. In the following code,

make the noted change, moving "printPackageDescription()" up one

line, ahead of generateClassListing().

com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.AbstractPackageWriter.java

/**

* Generate Individual Package File with Class/Interface/Exceptions and

* Error Listing with the appropriate links. Calls the methods from the

* sub-classes to generate the file contents.

* @param includeScript boolean true when including windowtitle script

*/

protected void generatePackageFile(boolean includeScript) throws IOException {

String pkgName = packagedoc.name();

String metakeywords = pkgName + " " + getText("doclet.package");

printHtmlHeader(pkgName, metakeywords, includeScript);

printPackageHeader(pkgName);

generateClassListing();

printPackageDescription(); // Move this statement up one line

printPackageFooter();

printBodyHtmlEnd();

}

-Doug Kramer

Javadoc team

dkramer at 2007-7-7 12:48:10 >