Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML??

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Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:07:48 -0400

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On 7/24/2012 7:35 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:42:36 -0400, Arne Vajh?j <arne@vajhoej.dk>
wrote:

On 7/24/2012 4:47 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

[snip]

One big disadvantage of on-line documentation is that sometimes,
bits of it are hidden or not in obvious places. Hard-copy
documentation has the advantage of nothing being hidden. If you go
through the whole book, you get all of the content.

I also like books.

But it is not practical with something as big as the Java API.

4000 types of average 5 pages = 20000 pages = 50 volumes of 400 pages

I have read the JavaScript standard. It is available as a PDF.
That has the advantages of being greppable, and being in a form that
makes sense when printed.

Is the Java documentation available that way? Printing one, two,
three 400-page books would help. I would pick the stuff that I would
frequently need and then bits of other special stuff as I ran across
it.

JLS and JVM spec are available as PDF:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

Also coding convention:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html

I am not aware of the Java API being available as PDF. And as I
indicated above then I believe the main reason is size.

Arne