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Bug 357996

Summary:	Automatically link to Javadoc or source code inside library Jar
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Timo Kinnunen <timo.kinnunen>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Timo Kinnunen

2011-09-16 18:19:59 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

It should be possible to distribute a library as a single Jar-file that contains its Javadoc or source code inside its Jar-file. Eclipse should detect this and automatically link to the Javadoc and/or source code when the library is added to a project. The end result should be exactly like manually linking them from separate files/folders.

Potential implementation:
Javadoc is located compressed in META-INF/javadoc.jar (or .zip) or the uncompressed Javadoc files are located under META-INF/javadoc-folder.

This is a request for a new feature. I don't know the security or compatibility implications of the aforementioned implementation.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As far as I can tell, this feature doesn't exist in this form.

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-09-16 19:20:11 EDT

Java tooling bugs and enhancement requests go to JDT.

Comment 2 Timo Kinnunen

2013-06-26 13:48:39 EDT

Using Maven from Eclipse takes care of source code and Javadoc attachments and thus this feature isn't very important to me.