Name: boT120536 Date: 03/20/2001

java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, mixed mode)

It is my belief that many developers using more than just the core JDK, are
using one or possibly many different APIs given by Sun. Each one of these APIs
has a separate JavaDoc that comes with it. Many of these APIs do not come with
source code (i.e. Java3D, JavaSpeech, etc.), and therefore not easy to
integrate (i.e. have classes point to other classes cross API) the JavaDoc web
pages. My suggestion would be to create a web site (part of java.sun.com of
course) that users could easily go to and create their "personalized" JavaDoc,
by clicking the APIs that they use, and downloading the zip file that has the
integrated JavaDoc. This must be possible implementing in the JavaDoc API (I
am not familiar with it), but it probably is easier to have the server cache
all of the different versions (possibly). In any case, it would be amazing if
something like this happens, because most developers waste alot of time jumping
from one API Doc set to another, even though they might reference one another.

Thanks! Please let me know if there is already something like this.
(Review ID: 119012)
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