Re: Javadoc quirks -- linking to anchor within package summary?

From:
"Daniel Pitts" <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
27 Dec 2006 01:23:52 -0800
Message-ID:
<1167211432.203420.235210@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
John Ersatznom wrote:

I want my documentation to be self-contained and independent of any
external file, precisely to avoid links breaking when things are moved
about (including if the filesystem layout javadoc generates changes). I
don't see any clean way to use external files other than to host them on
the Web at a stable never-changing URL, I'm afraid, and stable
never-changing Web URLs are expensive, because you have to a) get your
own domain, b) get real hosting, c) pay yearly or even monthly for
both...no free web space providers can be trusted to preserve your URLs
(or even themselves) and I don't even know of a tinyurl-like redirector
that lets you forward a URL to your own page and update it when your
page moves, either. (And that would still suffer from the link's
stability depending on the redirector.) ISP webspace is obviously right
out, too. In fact, now that I think about it, the impossibility of
having a permanent online link to anything without paying through the
nose for the rest of your life (assumes by "permanent" you really mean
permanent) is itself a massive problem, though not a Java problem...


As far as I know, all java-doc links are relative, and therefor should
be safe to put where ever.

As for the expense of hosting?
I have four domains, and host them myself. It costs me $35/yr each
(thats < $3/mo), plus the cost of my cable internet (which I would have
anyway), and the cost of running a server (I admit, electricity isn't
free, but its cheap enough). The server itself is an old AMD k6, 256MB
ram, 40GB harddrive, running NetBSD. Parts I had just laying around.

Its perfectly suitible for hosting Javadocs, forum software (forums
virtualinfinity.net), TWiki (projects coloraura.com), random applets
(coloraura.com/artwork/), home made wiki software (wiki
virtualinfinity.net), php scripts (www virtualinfinity.net), a few
databases, etc...

If you really want self-contained documentation, distribute it in an
archive file (such as ZIP, tar.gz, JAR, rar, or any other form of
archive).

Hope this helps, and good luck.
- Daniel.

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