JAutodoc

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Solution Description

JAutodoc is an Eclipse Plugin for automatically adding Javadoc and file headers to your source code. It optionally generates initial comments from element name by using Velocity templates for Javadoc and file headers. The main features are

  • Complete, keep or replace existing Javadoc
  • Create initial comments from element name
  • Getter/Setter comments from related field comment
  • Add/Replace file headers
  • Velocity templates for Javadoc and headers
  • Ant Task for Eclipse
  • Support for Package Javadoc
  • Search for missing Javadoc and file headers
  • Support for Markdown (Java 23 required)

 

Categories: Code Management, Documentation, Editor, IDE, Search

Tags: javadoc, templates, file header, velocity

Additional Details

Eclipse Versions: 2026-09 (4.41), 2026-06 (4.40), 2026-03 (4.39), 2025-12 (4.38), 2025-09 (4.37), 2025-06 (4.36), 2025-03 (4.35), 2024-12 (4.34), 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31), 2023-12 (4.30), 2023-09 (4.29), 2023-06 (4.28), 2023-03 (4.27), 2022-12 (4.26), 2022-09 (4.25), 2022-06 (4.24), 2022-03 (4.23), 2021-12 (4.22), 2021-09 (4.21), 2021-06 (4.20), 2021-03 (4.19), 2020-12 (4.18), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6), Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), Kepler (4.3), 2026-12 (4.42)

Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Organization Name: Martin Kesting

Development Status: Production/Stable

Date Created: Monday, August 21, 2006 - 10:11

License: EPL

Date Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - 15:16

Submitted by: Martin Kesting

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Submitted by Ed Randall on Mon, 12/12/2016 - 12:01

A useful tool, in so far as it goes.
In my experience this tool is used to save time with satisfying some corresponding Checkstyle rules.
Beware that mindlessly generating Javadoc comments on otherwise documented classes adds little, if any, value. Developers need to learn to actually write some *meaningful* comments in the generated fields, but very few do so.

A link from the marketplace description above, into the actual JAutodoc site jautodoc.sourceforge.net would not go amiss.

Submitted by Ashok Ram on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 03:38

Hi,

Please check I am getting this below error message while intalling the JAutoDoc

An error occurred while installing the items
session context was:(profile=_Users_ashokram_Ashok_Applications_Eclipse.app_Contents_Eclipse, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null --> [R]net.sf.jautodoc 1.14.0, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).
Could not acquire the framework manipulator service.
Could not acquire the framework manipulator service.

Environment

  1. Mac - 10.13.6
  2. Eclipse Version - Oxygen.3a Release (4.7.3a), Build id: 20180405-1200

Submitted by Giovanni Lovato on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 04:20

Running Eclipse with Java > 8 (I'm on Java 11) when trying to export JAutodoc preferences to XML this exception is thrown:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext
	at net.sf.jautodoc.utils.JAXBSerializer.doExport(JAXBSerializer.java:43)
	at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.PreferenceSerializer.doExport(PreferenceSerializer.java:40)
	at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.MainPreferencePage.performExport(MainPreferencePage.java:478)
	at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.MainPreferencePage.access$2(MainPreferencePage.java:467)
	at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.MainPreferencePage$3.widgetSelected(MainPreferencePage.java:187)

Submitted by Andre Sudhoff on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 07:33

I'm running Eclispe 2022-03 with Java 17.0.2 and try to export JAutoDoc preferences (Export All) which is not working. The following exception is thrown:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.opt.Injector
   at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.opt.AccessorInjector.prepare(AccessorInjector.java:41)
   at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.opt.OptimizedAccessorFactory.get(OptimizedAccessorFactory.java:77)
   at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.Accessor$GetterSetterReflection.optimize(Accessor.java:317)
   at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.property.SingleElementNodeProperty.<init>SingleElementNodeProperty.java:52)
   at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
...
   at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:522)
   at net.sf.jautodoc.utils.JAXBSerializer.doExport(JAXBSerializer.java:43)
   at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.PreferenceSerializer.doExport(PreferenceSerializer.java:40)
   at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.MainPreferencePage.performExport(MainPreferencePage.java:478)
   at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.MainPreferencePage.access$2(MainPreferencePage.java:467)
   at net.sf.jautodoc.preferences.MainPreferencePage$3.widgetSelected(MainPreferencePage.java:187)
...