How to merge / cross Javadoc?

Question

If you have standard Javadoc for several different projects, how can you process them to create a single, unified set of documentation in which everything is stitched? Ideally, the result will be similar to the documentation for the various modules of the NetBeans platform:

http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/index.html

but I looked at their build scripts, and they are based on the fact that you are building everything from the source. I am looking for something that can also handle links in Javadoc for third-party libraries, so I would suggest that it would be a post-processing operation.

I cannot be the first to ever want this. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try using the options '-linkoffline' or '-link' described here http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/solaris/javadoc.html#linkoffline