Doclet

Doclet programs work with the Javadoc tool to generate documentation from code written in Java.

Doclets are written in the Java programming language and use the Doclet API to:

Select which content to include in the documentation
Format the presentation of the content
Create the file that contains the documentation

The StandardDoclet[1] included with Javadoc generates API documentation as frame-based HTML files. Many non-standard doclets are available on the web ^{[citation needed]}, often for free. These can be used to:

Create other non-API types of documentation
Output the documentation to other non-HTML file types such as PDF
Output the documentation as HTML with additional features such as a search or with embedded UML diagrams generated from the Java classes

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