I have a java codebase with many packages which I'm not that familiar with.

I just want to get an overview by javadoc-ing the while thing. Without having to specify the names of which packages I want to document. I just want "everything"

Is there a simple command line option for this?

Update :

I would have just expected to be able to write something like

javadoc -d /home/html -sourcepath .

to get all the packages defined under the currect directory

But it doesn't seem to work that way. But what would be the way to get that?

CodePudding user response：

GUI based answer, unrelated

An easy and cozy way (requires

CodePudding user response：

What stops you from running javadoc directly? As you can see from the documentation, specifying package names is optional. So far I never specified packages and always obtained the full project.

CodePudding user response：

If your project is in C:\JavaProject and the source files are in C:\JavaProject\src,

Use command:

cd C:\JavaProject\src

followed by:

javadoc -d C:\JavaProject\docs * -subpackages *

Warning: This method will fail if it encounters a subdirectory that is not a package or source.