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  2. JDK-4287659

supplemental: Include intermed. javadoc files with .class files in separate .jar

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        When you implement incremental builds of javadoc (probably in XML),
        I'd like to see the intermediate javadoc files bound into a jar files with
        their corresponding .class files. For instance, for the Java Platform classes,
        there would be two versions of rt.jar:

         - one with the .class files and the intermediate (XML) javadoc files
         - a second version with just the .class files

        This way a developer that wants to create javadocs could easily include
        links to all the java.lang , etc. class javadocs without having to
        download all of the source files. Thus, I'd be able to run javadoc on
        my code (with -classpath for any needed jar files) and the resulting
        HTML would include information about the jar's .class files.

        It would also be great if the jar command supported the inclusion of
        intermediate javadoc files into the jar file. This would help developers
        who want to provide javadoc-able information without including source files.
        This would also keep the documentation in sync with the .class files. So...
        there would be no question which set of source files (e.g., the old
        source.zip) or which set of linked in HTML files went with the classes in
        the current set of jar files.


              bpatel Bhavesh Patel (Inactive)
              dkramersunw Douglas Kramer (Inactive)
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