[JSR308] Annotations in Javadoc

Tom Ball Tom.Ball at Sun.COM
Mon May 21 10:03:11 EDT 2007


Scott Seligman wrote:
>> That states that annotations that are meta-annotated with @Documented "are
>> documented by javadoc and similar tools by default".  Does anyone know what
>> "by default" means in that phrase?  How does one override the default?
> 
> There's no option today in the javadoc tool to override that default
> behavior.  One could conceivably be added, but there hasn't been any
> request for that.

Scott, don't you mean the standard doclet rather than javadoc tool?  I 
had assumed that all annotations were available to doclets, but perhaps 
that's wrong.

Tom



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