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Bug 357996 - Automatically link to Javadoc or source code inside library Jar
Summary: Automatically link to Javadoc or source code inside library Jar
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: JDT-Core-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-09-16 18:19 EDT by Timo Kinnunen CLA
Modified: 2013-06-26 13:48 EDT (History)
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Description Timo Kinnunen CLA 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 CLA 2011-09-16 19:20:11 EDT 
Java tooling bugs and enhancement requests go to JDT.
Comment 2 Timo Kinnunen CLA 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.