Doclet

As doclet is called applets based on modules, which are used by documentation tools for processing and automatic generation of documentation and possibly code. Doclets are known particularly in the area of Java, where they are used as modules in the documentation Javadoc tool.

The built- in standard Javadoc doclet generated from Java source code, API documentation in HTML. There are numerous alternate doclet to generate the API documentation in other formats, such as the Windows Help format, FrameMaker / MIF, XML or PDF. Other alternative doclets extend the generated API documentation and embed automatically (for example ) from the Java classes generated UML diagrams a.

Currently there enjoy doclet for generating code very popular, even if they are medium well replaced by the added in Java 5.0 annotations. The best known of these code generating doclets probably the XDoclet, use that J2EE developers to automatically generate the home interface, remote interface, implementation, EJB QL, SQL code, deployment descriptor, and assembly - descriptor from only a single source and thus save a lot of typing and so development time; but in particular, all single files at the same level and compliant.