l10n doclet and JDK 1.5 Javadoc
We have been using the I10n doclet to help with translations. The doclet extracts the text of comments from the source files into another file hierachy. These text files can then be translated into foreign languages. The doclet is used again with javadoc to build the foreign language version of the document from these translated comments.
It was working fine with JDK 1.4. I've just been trying it with the javadoc in JDK 1.5 and I get this error just after javadoc starts
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/doclets/DocletAbortException
We downloaded this doclet from sun a long time ago and I no longer remember from where. I have searched sun.com, in the hope of finding an updated version, but can't find any trace of "I10n doclet". Does anyone know either how to fix this problem or from where I can obtain an updated doclet?
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nihonmsca] at [2007-10-3 11:12:36]
It's not available from Sun's website. It was available only as an alpha
release by request to javadoctool@sun.com. You might try asking
again. I'm pretty certain they used a version that works with 1.5 to generate
the Chinese JDK 1.5 docs:
http://gceclub.sun.com.cn/Java_Docs/html/zh_CN/api/index.html
and the Portuguese docs:
http://download.java.net/jdk/jdk-api-localizations/jdk5-api-pt-br/builds/latest/html/pt_BR/api/
The latter version is translated through a collaborative community through a Wiki.
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/JDK/Brazilian-Portuguese
When someone submits the translated comments, I believe the localization doclet is run
by Sun internally to generate the Portuguese javadocs.
I believe the DocletAbortException has been fixed in that version of the doclet.
-Doug
Mail to javadoctool@sun.com (and javadoctools@sun.com) is being returned "User unknown". Do you have any other e-mail address I can try?
Regards
-Mark
> It's not available from Sun's website. It was
> available only as an alpha
> release by request to javadoctool@sun.com. You might
> try asking
> again.
