Stop Software-Patents Now!

The EU currently (Feb/March 2004) tries to introduce software patents and drastic measures against consumers' rights. P2P file sharer risk the confiscation of hardware and the freezing of bank accounts according to those plans - and this without even being heard!

The EU parlament should decide on this matter already on the 8th of March, just a few weeks after the publication of these plans. Apparently the proposals should be legalised without any public discussion. Last year a broad movement against software patents and against the restriction of consumer rights prevented the introduction of software patents: the EU parlament voted against unlimited patentability.

Please support the petitions against this madness:

• Call for Action II of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• eurolinux
• Rally against Europe's "DMCA on Steriods", 8th of March in Strasbourg!

Further information:

• BBC: Software patents threaten Linux
• CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment
• IP Justice
• Heise news: EU Council agitates for unlimited software patents
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• European Digital Rights

Software Patente verhindern!

Die EU versucht gegenwärtig (Feb/März 2004) Software Patente und ein drakonisches Urheberrecht nach US-amerikanischen Vorbild einzuführen. So können den Vorschlägen zufolge die Bankkonten von P2P Dateitauscher eingefroren und ihre Hardware beschlagnahmt werden, ohne dass die Betroffenen dazu auch nur angehört werden müssen.

Das EU Parlament soll über die neuen Vorschläge bereits am 8.März abstimmen, wenn die Pläne gerade erst ein paar Wochen lang publik geworden sind. Anscheinend soll die Entscheidung ohne öffentliche Diskussion fallen, nachdem sich im letzten Jahr eine breite Bewegung gegen Software-Patente formiert hatte und das EU Parlament sich daraufhin gegen Software-Patente und Einschränkungen der Nutzerrechte ausgesprochen hatte.

Bitte unterstütz folgende Aktionen gegen diesen Wahnsinn:

• Call for Action II des Fördervereins für eine Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur
• eurolinux
• Demo am 8.März in Strassburg.

Weitergehende Information:

• www.softwarepatente.com
• Rechtliche Probleme des Vorschlags von Georg Jakob
• IP Justice
• Heise news: Initiative gegen EU-Richtlinie zum geistigen Eigentum
• Heise news: EU-Rat macht sich für grenzenlose Softwarepatente stark
• Heise news: EU schützt geistiges Eigentum
• Heise news: EU-Rat drängt auf Kriminalisierung leichter Urheberrechtsverstöße
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Förderverein für eine Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur
• Europäische Digitale Rechte
• Mailing-Liste gegen Software Patente

doc2java

Use doc2java to create Java-source files from JavaDoc.

Setter- and getter-methods as well as variables will be created automatically. The documentation itself will also be copied into the source-files.

How to use

Just follow these simple steps:

1. Download the doc2java.jar file.
2. Call java -jar doc2java.jar -R mydocdir from the command line, where mydocdir is the path to the directory containing the JavaDoc-files.
3. The code will be generated in the current directory.

Obviously you need to have a Java Runtime Environment (1.2 or higher) installed.

Options and parameters

You can give several command-line-paramters.

Usage is java -jar doc2java.jar [options] file

Options:

• -R (or --recursive): scan all subdirectories as well.
• -o (or --output): the directory where to write the java files, defaults to the current directory.
• --notodo: write no todo tags into the files.
• --todotag: use the given to-do-tag, defaults to "//TODO".

Parameters:

• file: either the JavaDoc file or the directory containing the JavaDoc files, which should be processed.

Examples:

• java -jar doc2java.jar MyClass.html
  creates the source code for the class decribed in MyClass.html.
• java -jar doc2java.jar mydoc
  creates the source code for all classes described in the directory mydoc.
• java -jar doc2java.jar -R mydoc
  creates the source code for all classes described in the directory mydoc and its subdirectories.
• java -jar doc2java.jar -R --todotag "//TODO rob" mydoc
  same as above, but the generated todo-tags will now start with "//TODO rob".
• java -jar doc2java.jar -R --notodotag mydoc
  same as above, but the no todo-tags will be generated.
• java -jar doc2java.jar -R --output /home/myname/workspace/myproject/src mydoc
  creates the source code for all classes described in the directory mydoc and its subdirectories. The source codes will be saved in the directory /home/myname/workspace/myproject/src.

Limitations

Currently there are some known issues:

• Import statements will not be generated.
• Inner and anonymous classes will not be generated.
• See tags will not be split, when there are several references.

License and Copyright

doc2java is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL), so it can be used for non-commercial as well as commercial projects.

copyright 2003, 2004 Robert Virkus, robert at enough dot de.

Download

Download doc2java either as binary or from the Developers' site as source code.

You can download the latest development snapshot from the cvs-repository.

Developers' site

Please visit http://developer.berlios.de/projects/doc2java/ for other resources of the doc2java project.

The project is hosted by