Posted in blog city on June 16th 2004  

Cedric has released a new plug in for eclipse called Doclipse.
This is small but very nice utility to have in ones plug in list for eclipse.

However, with introduction of annotations in JDK1.5, I am not sure how many would like to write custom javadoc tags. I expect (and hope) developers to use more annotations than java doc tags.

I do not know much about XDoclet, except the fact that it supports various custom javadoc tags that help in generating code. I would hope that in future XDoclet will also start supporting annotations (similar to the custom javadoc tags) to generate the source code.

I expect auto completion to be present while using annotations once eclipse starts supporting new features of JDK1.5. Then the use of this plugin may be very limited.

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