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Find authors of the documentation of a java standard library class

for my research I would like to know the authors of some of the Java standard library classes like Socket. I tried it with openjdk but was not that successful. I would like to see which author wrote what part of the API documentation.

Solution

  • I found it in the JavaDoc to the java.net.Socket class:

    /**
 * This class implements client sockets (also called just
 * "sockets"). A socket is an endpoint for communication
 * between two machines.
 * <p>
 * The actual work of the socket is performed by an instance of the
 * {@code SocketImpl} class. An application, by changing
 * the socket factory that creates the socket implementation,
 * can configure itself to create sockets appropriate to the local
 * firewall.
 *
 * @author  unascribed
 * @see     java.net.Socket#setSocketImplFactory(java.net.SocketImplFactory)
 * @see     java.net.SocketImpl
 * @see     java.nio.channels.SocketChannel
 * @since   JDK1.0
 */
public
class Socket implements java.io.Closeable

    The same way you can get the author of SocketChannel class:

    * @author Mark Reinhold
* @author JSR-51 Expert Group
* @since 1.4

    And SocketImplFactory interface:

    * @author  Arthur van Hoff
* @see     java.net.Socket
* @see     java.net.ServerSocket
* @since   JDK1.0

    You see this class was included to JDK 1.0 version, that was released in 1996. Probably there were a group of authors, and they don't specify their names in JavaDoc.

    UPDATE. As @Selphiron found, there are OpenJDK Mercurial Reposotories. There are a lot of useful technical information on the left upper corner such as log, branches, tags and so on.

    Example for Gregorian Calendar class.