[izpack-devel] Good practice for the Eclipse "Problem"-Tab...

[Marc Eppelmann]

Hi,

+1 :-) Since we provide the Javadoc as HTML, these API Overview (or better 
Developer Reference Manual) should be also up to date and usable.

Marc

Am Freitag, 1. Dezember 2006 17:18 schrieb Bartz, Klaus:
> Hi Mrkus,
> I do not agree with you that it is a good practice to ignore eclipse
> warnings. Yes, most of it are related to missing or corrupt java doc.
> May be we have not the time and/or not the knowledge to create sufficient
> java doc comments for old code. But we can do it for our new code. Also for
> getter and setter. It is possible to use template for simple situation. You
> need a <ctrl> <shift> J grip... And you do not forget the java doc at
> methods where it is really needed. It is contents of the language and it is
> recommanded to comment all non-private methods. Not all developer uses the
> source as docu. If we do it not, the code will be not better.
>
> May be it is possible to use implicit developing rules if the developing
> group consists of one or two people, but not with nearly twenty. One makes
> no java comment, the other do not attend the dtd (or writes no) and some
> others do not write docu for the features or do not update it at changes.
> Not forget different coding styles...
> To supress such chaos it is needed to say something about it from time to
> time (it is also addressed to me).
>
> Cheers
>
> Klaus
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de]On Behalf Of Markus Schlegel
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:49 AM
> To: izpack-devel at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: [izpack-devel] Good practice for the Eclipse "Problem"-Tab...
>
>
> Hi
>
> I read some posts about this the last few days and like to share a few
> thoughts about this.
>
> When I switched from JBuilder to Eclipse last summer with my project,
> Eclipse showed up with several thousands Problems. First I thought, "oh
> dear, there is so much wrong with my code? Lets fix all of this and I get
> more reliable code (higher quality)...". When I got deeper into this, I
> realized, that most of those problem warnings are irrelevant. It just makes
> no sense to add a foll blown javadoc comment to a simple selfexplainatory
> method. What happens most in such cases is, that the programmer then simply
> adds a dummy comment (no real explaination, its there only to quiten
> eclipse). And in fact I saw this in many projects. It just makes no sense
> to rewrite in javadoc what is written in the method declaration already.
> Often it's also much better and sufficient to write a good class comment.
> Then iot makes no sense to rewrite the comment for the methods again. The
> other point that often happens with such (dummy) comments is, that -
> because they are irrelevant - they will not be maintained when developing
> the code. What I like a lot more, are comments inside the code block (as it
> is done in IzPack already very well I argue). But this can not be tested
> with eclipse of corse...
>
> So maybe you should concentrate on real problems, open points and fixing
> bugs rather than quitening eclipse's problem tab.
>
> Regards
>
> Markus