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Javadoc from a jar file

843810Apr 10 2003 — edited Jun 19 2003
How can I give a single javadoc command so as to generate the documentation for all the classes in a jar file

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843810
Does the jar file contain .class files or .java files?

Javadoc cannot document .java files in jar files.
I'll check into whether it can document .class files in jar files
using an undocumented -Xclasses option in 1.4.2.
I don't believe -subpackages would work, though, so you'd
have to write a script to get all the fully-qualified class names.

-Doug Kramer
javadoc team
843810
The jar file contains class files.
How can i generate the documentation recursively for a folder which contains .class files & subfolders?
843810
FRom www.jdiff.org README:

"JDiff also includes a script to use the classdoc application from
http://classdoc.sourceforge.net or http://www.jensgulden.de, by Jens Gulden, mail@jensgulden.de,
to call a doclet such as jdiff on a .jar file rather than on source."

You can use this to generate Javadoc output directly from jar files.

~Matt
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