javadoc: good news, bad news

[cellio]

Good news: the folks at Sun are considering adding an @exclude tag to the standard doclet. The tag could be used at the class or member level to prevent production of javadoc for that item. I need this feature; in fact, we wrote a custom doclet to get it, but every new release of Java has forced a new layer of kludges onto that doclet and it's now quite unmaintainable.

Bad news: this feature has been pending since 1997.

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it could be worse

[sethg]

Java's implementation of inner classes blows a massive hole in their security model. Bill Pugh showed how the hole could be closed back in 1999, but (at least as of Java 1.4) Sun has not bothered to take advantage of it. Idjits.