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COMMIT TO FIX:
merlin-beta2

FIXED IN:
merlin-beta2

INTEGRATED IN:
merlin-beta2

VERIFIED IN:
merlin-beta2


                                     

EVALUATION

Can someone write a wrapper in Java to perform this function?
doug.kramer@Eng 1998-04-03

There is a huge demand from the JDC for this functionality and it 
should be added to the tool itself.  For backward compatibility
this functionality will require a flag and a flag or flags will
be needed to exclude packages.
robert.field@Eng 1998-10-06

Raised priority from 5 to 4 and added workaround.
doug.kramer@Eng 1998-10-06

Add option -recurse so that the default is to not recurse, for backward
compatibility.  However, if we require package names, then you
could not run javadoc on all the java.* packages:  javadoc -recurse java
since "java" is not a package.

Or should -exclude take a package or class name, so you could
combine it with -recurse:   javadoc -recurse package1 -exclude package2
This should work at the member level, class level or package level.
doug.kramer@Eng 1998-12-15

Further design and discussion needed - fix in 1.3.
robert.field@Eng 1999-02-04

Because this is so highly requested, how about if we write a wrapper to do
this for Merlin (1.4), then add it to Javadoc later.
doug.kramer@Eng 2000-12-06

This RFE has been implemented.  Location of implemetation:

src/share/javac/com/sun/tools/javadoc/JavadocTool.java
src/share/javac/com/sun/tools/javadoc/Start.java
src/share/javac/com/sun/tools/javadoc/resources/javadoc.properties

jamie.ho@Eng 2001-07-20
                                     

PUBLIC COMMENTS

This RFE has been implemented.  I have added two command-line flags to javadoc:
 -subpackages <packagename>
        Which causes javadoc to include the named package and all subpackages; and
-exclude <packagename>
        Which causes javadoc to unconditionally exclude the named package
        from the list of packages to document even if it would otherwise
        be included by some previous or later -subpackages command-line
        flag. For example
                -exclude java.lang.ref -subpackages java
        Would include java.io, java.util, java.lang, etc, but not java.lang.ref.

jamie.ho@Eng 2001-07-20
                                     

WORK AROUND

For those who need this feature because they have hit the 
command line-length limit (1000 characters on Windows),
we have already implemented a different solution for that --
the @file argument which points to a file that can contain the
rest of the arguments.  This works in 1.2 Beta4.  For more 
information, see:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/tooldocs/win32/javadoc.html#argumentfile
doug.kramer@Eng 1998-10-06