Newbie questions: javadoc, secure transport, ant & gcj, library build structure

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 16:44, Brian Jones wrote:
> Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org> writes:
> > I'm working on a project using gcj 3.3.1 (on Red Hat Linux 9 using gcc
> > 3.3.1 from Rawhide).  Hope these questions aren't too badly asked (in
> > the ESR "how to ask questions" sense):
> > 
> > 1.  The manual and FAQ don't seem to reference any javadoc for the class
> > libraries.  Does javadoc exist?  If so, could you please point me to the
> > right place?
> 
> Classpath's javadoc is temporarily not available online.  We're trying
> to fix this.

I have put the output of a gjdoc run on GNU Classpath at:
http://klomp.org/mark/classpath/doc/api/html/

> > 3.  I have never used ant, but am told it is a much better tool than
> > make for Java development.  Are there any pointers or working examples
> > for using it with gcj?  (I currently use some rather ugly custom makefiles.)
> 
> I don't know if anyone has written a gcj backend for the javac task or
> any other tasks.  Some custom gcj tasks are probably necessary.

Ant isn't really better or worse (except for the silly XML-like syntax)
then normal make. Since it is written in the java language some people
prefer it above installing a make program for those non GNU based
systems that don't provide development tools out of the box. But for gcj
builds that produce native code and/or libraries Ant is not ideal.
Rhug is a nice example of how to do java the gcj way:
http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/

Cheers,

Mark