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Netbeans newbie-- How to enable viewing info from a javadoc JAR file

I have some JAR files which I have to add to a Java project- for each of those JARs I also have separate JARs that contain Javadoc for each of the jars-- now I want to be able to view information from the Javadocs in Netbeans.

How do I do this? I am using Netbeans IDE 7.3 on Windows 8 x-64.

Solution

  • when you download some JAR in zip, you will find usually 3 files in there :

    example.jar
example-sources.jar
example-javadoc.jar

    In your project import example.jar as libarary. After that go to your Project (right click ) then Properties >> Libraries >> Compile then select your jar file and click EDIT, in that form select javadoc and sources file :)

    Here is image for easy navigation (itextpdf lib is in thi example)

    Netbeans project settings

    EDIT

    There is even faster way ;) Right click on JAR in Libraries section of your Project and select Edit from menu. Its the same form as in example above.