Codavaj 1.2.0

codavaj is javadoc in reverse. A seemingly useless tool. Arguably of interest only to the most hardcore java hackers. A "must have" in every geeks software toolbox. ( hitchhikers guide entry Nr. 151776 ).
Codavaj is a reverse engineering tool with focus on Javadoc. Currently codavaj is distributed as a command line tool ( codavaj.cmd - using org.codavaj.Main class ). A 100% java tool.
You can:
- convert an entire local javadoc tree into java source code.
- download an entire remote javadoc tree via http(s).
- derive a Reflection-like API based on information derived from a javadoc tree.
Codavaj works by converting javadoc HTML into XML by using Nekohtml and then successively deriving class information from the XML using XPATH queries ( using dom4j ).
Not because i lost the sources for some code - but miraculously still had the javadoc for it! This wouldnt help much anyway because codavaj leaves you with a TODO for each method implementation.
For me this was simply an intellectual challenge - a side battle in a hobby programmers grand master plan. As a bonus i managed to improve my XPATH query skills a bit. It took me 2 full working weeks to get the initial version out. If I needed this once, then theres bound to be someone out there who might like to use it, for whatever reason. It probably will save them the 2 weeks too.
Enhancements:
- New features include the ability to parse javadocs generated by the 1.5 javadoc tool.
- The known limitations are that enums and generics constructs are not supported yet.
- Several minor bugs in parsing constant values like "NaN" and "0d/0d" were fixed.
- A Linux/Unix-like command line tool was added.