Doclet
Doclet programs work with the Javadoc tool to generate documentation from code written in Java.
Doclets are written in the Java programming language and use the to:
The included with Javadoc generates API documentation as frame-based HTML files. Many non-standard doclets are available on the web, often for free. These can be used to:
- Create other non-API types of documentation
- Output the documentation to other non-HTML file types such as PDF
- Output the documentation as HTML with additional features such as a search or with embedded UML diagrams generated from the Java classes
