Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Adding JDK Javadoc to NetBeans IDE

Download JDK documentation from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
Unzip the zip file to the JDK directory
In NetBeans IDE
1. Choose Tools > Java Platform Manager from the main window.
2. Select the platform to which you want to add Javadoc in the left panel of the dialog box.
3. In the Javadoc tab, click Add ZIP/Folder and specify the location of the Javadoc files.
4. Click Close.

12 comments:

afolarin said...

Great.. just what I wanted. - cheers Wei

Netbeans site has lots of duplicate instructions on importing other libraries & jars for custom javadoc but there I couldn't find help on how to import the java core doc apis

...xD ¶ said...

your post was so helpful, i haven't realized I needed javadoc until I was on trouble, but now everything seems to work fine

Unknown said...

I've added a jar file to netbeans, how do I get the javadocs to show up when I insert a class from that jar? Same way?

amp_cstu said...

Thanks a lot!

AssemDev said...

Thanks ! !

christopher said...

i too thank you very much. this seems simple enough to do, yet the site won't tell you how and those of us new to this development thing gotta' read how to do it all somewhere.

again, thanks. :)

Brandon Thomson said...

Perfect! Worked great in ubuntu.

Ron Hinchley said...

NetBeans 6.5 you can add the .zip archive directly in place of the address of the javadoc. Using the excellent advice it finds the javadoc. Thanks

Unknown said...

Super Smashing Great! Another Happy Ubuntu user :-)

Many thanks

Stephan

Chaz said...

Thanks man, helped alot!

Unknown said...

...and where us the javadocs zip?

Anonymous said...

nice tips) i suppose they can be quite helpful!


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