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leskaPaul - 16 Mar 2007 22:29 GMT

I'm not able to get to the website; my precious API documentation!
Neither is anyone in my office.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

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Paul Tomblin - 16 Mar 2007 22:33 GMT

In a previous article, "leskaPaul" <leskaPaul@gmail.com> said:

>I'm not able to get to the website; my precious API documentation!
>Neither is anyone in my office.
>
>Is anyone else experiencing this?

It's working for me.

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Knute Johnson - 17 Mar 2007 00:29 GMT

> I'm not able to get to the website; my precious API documentation!
> Neither is anyone in my office.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this?

You don't keep a local copy? You bandwidth squanderer you!

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Oliver Wong - 23 Mar 2007 21:06 GMT

>> I'm not able to get to the website; my precious API documentation!
>> Neither is anyone in my office.
>>
>> Is anyone else experiencing this?
>
> You don't keep a local copy? You bandwidth squanderer you!

Isn't there a local copy automatically included with the JDK (in
"src.zip", I believe?)

- Oliver

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Steve Wampler - 23 Mar 2007 21:50 GMT

> Isn't there a local copy automatically included with the JDK (in
> "src.zip", I believe?)

I think you have to pick it up separately.

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Daniel Dyer - 23 Mar 2007 21:50 GMT

>>> I'm not able to get to the website; my precious API documentation!
>>> Neither is anyone in my office.
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> Isn't there a local copy automatically included with the JDK (in
> "src.zip", I believe?)

The API documentation is a separate download (probably due to its
considerable size). Src.zip is the source code only (but you could of
course generate the Javadocs from it).

Dan.

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Oliver Wong - 23 Mar 2007 23:02 GMT

>>>> I'm not able to get to the website; my precious API documentation!
>>>> Neither is anyone in my office.
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> considerable size). Src.zip is the source code only (but you could of
> course generate the Javadocs from it).

Right, this is what I was referring to. A "good" IDE should be able to
automatically extract the javadoc-encoded comments from the Src.zip and
present an interface for browsing through it which is as easy to use as a
webbrowser browsing through the HTML-form of the javadocs. Eclipse can do
this, for example.

One advantage to this over the webbrowser approach is that I can
transparently access the javadocs for all my JARs without worrying about
where those JARs came from, whereas with a webbrowser, I might have to
think "Who wrote this library? Apache? Some random guy? Better go to the
homepage and look around for where the online API is stored".

Another is that you still have access to the JavaDocs, even with
Internet problems.

One last that I can come up with off the top of my head is that your
JavaDocs are much more likely to be "synchronized" with the version of the
library you're actually using, whereas you might have to pay extra
attention that you're when you're using a 1.4 JRE, you read the 1.4
JavaDocs, and not the 1.6 JavaDocs.

- Oliver

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