I'm trying to build up some documentation for my Wicket Web Application. I have created a page to grab all of my mounted pages and display them in /sitemap.xml.
In the vein of documentation I've added a new tag to the file <siteMap:Description>
now I want to fill that description with the javadoc entry that describes the class file.
I know there is know direct way to access them at runtime. So Instead I'm hoping to copy them at compile time into a List where they will then be accessible from runtime. How would I do that?
I'm using Maven for my build.
EDIT
I should probably Also mention that I do have an AntTask Already defined as part of my build process to save the compile Dates/times to a property file.
It seems to me an Task to scan my Class and then put the information into a file is probably the way to go. Problem is I'm not sure how to proceed.
My Ant-Task is defined like in my pom.xml so:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-nodeps</artifactId>
<version>1.6.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>set-build-time</id>
<phase>process-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<tstamp>
<format property="build.timestamp" pattern="yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"/>
<format property="build.time" pattern="HH:mm:ss" />
<format property="build.date" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy" />
<format property="build.year" pattern="yyyy"/>
</tstamp>
<replaceregexp byline="true">
<regexp pattern="copyYear\=.*" />
<!--suppress MavenModelInspection -->
<substitution expression="copyYear=${build.year}" />
<fileset dir="src/main/java/" includes="**/*.properties" />
</replaceregexp>
<replaceregexp byline="true">
<regexp pattern="buildTime\=.*" />
<!--suppress MavenModelInspection -->
<substitution expression="buildTime=${build.date} ${build.time}" />
<fileset dir="src/main/java/" includes="**/*.properties" />
</replaceregexp>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
After doing more research I determined I was barking up the wrong tree.
I since I was trying to get Javadoc comments A Doclet was the better answer.
So I implemented a custom doclet and wired it up to run automatically as described in
the follow up question and answer below.
How can I compile and run my Custom Doclet class in my project?