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It would be nice to investigate a dynamic help system menu for all system-installed javadoc packages. Looking in /usr/share/javadoc and wherever other distros keep their javadocs would be good. There's some good potential here for an extension point to keep a clean API boundary and have plugins for different on-disk javadoc file layouts.
Could this be implemented as an Eclipse plugin which scans the system locations for Javadocs? Maybe we should look at how the Maven plugins (q4e and m2eclipse) are able to associate a jar with its javadoc.
(In reply to comment #1) > Could this be implemented as an Eclipse plugin which scans the system locations > for Javadocs? Yes, that's exactly how it should be implemented. The existing libhover devhelp plugin does something similar. Jeff actually has experience with it and could perhaps guide someone interested in doing the work; I've CC'd him.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
This has been implemented in Linux Tools long ago. Marking as closed.
