Thursday, 2 December 2004

Sun Submits Javadoc Tag Technology Update (JSR 260)

Sun has submitted JSR 260: Javadoc Tag Technology Update, to the Java Community Process (JCP). This JSR will investigate various improvements to javadoc tags, including for example:

* categorization of methods and fields by their target use
* semantical index of classes and packages
* distinction of static, factory, deprecated methods from ordinary methods
* distinction of property accessors from ordinary methods
* combining and splitting information into views
* embedding of examples, common use-cases along with Javadoc

This JSR will also investigate possible representations of the document generated by the Javadoc tool from Javadoc comments using new tags. Comments are due by December 13.