mvn-doc-server

Serve your local JavaDocs from your Ivy or Maven repositories (including .ivy2/cache and .m2/repository) so you can read them from your browser.

Introduction

If you use Maven, Ivy or Sbt, you may also download the JavaDoc and Source packages of your dependencies.

If you use Maven or Sbt with IDEs (like Eclipse), you may already be familiar with such packages since both Maven and Sbt have plugins that configure those JavaDocs to be browsed within your IDEs.

This program, instead, lets you to read those documents directly from your browser without having to unpack any of them. Sometimes it is desired to browse the whole API of a package instead of reading about just a single type or method. You can use this program in this case.

Building

This program is written in the Scala programming language. You need Sbt to build this project.

Run sbt proguard to build.

The resulting jar includes all library dependencies and it is also shrunk and optimized by proguard.

Pre-built jars are also available on GitHub. Check the downloads.

Running

Run java -jar mvn-doc-server_xxxxxx.jar.

Command-line Options

Port

This HTTP server serves on the default port 63787. You can set this port by setting the -p or --port command-line option.

java -jar mvn-doc-server_xxxxxx.jar -p 8080

The above command will serve on port 8080, instead.

Repositories

A "repository" is a directory that may contain JavaDoc jars. This program will recursively scan all repositories for the files whose name ends with "-javadoc.jar".

The default repositories are:

• %{user.home}/.ivy2/cache
• %{user.home}/.m2/repository

where %{user.home} will be replaced by the user's home directory.

You may set the -e or --user-repos-extra command-line option to add additional repositories. Separate the repositories with colons.

java -jar mvn-doc-server_xxxxxx.jar -e /a/b/c:/d/e/f

Then /a/b/c and /d/e/f will be pre-pended before the two default repository paths. You man also use the %{...} pattern for Java system properties.

You may also set the -r or --user-repos command-line option. In this case, the default repository paths will not be used.

Copyright

Copyright 2012 Kunshan Wang wks1986@gmail.com

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.