[jira] [Created] (CXF-5375) xjc-javadoc plugin for generating more javadocs from xsd:documentation

["David Pytel (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

David Pytel created CXF-5375:
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             Summary: xjc-javadoc plugin for generating more javadocs from xsd:documentation
                 Key: CXF-5375
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-5375
             Project: CXF
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Tooling
            Reporter: David Pytel


Answering Stackoverflow question: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19444064/cxf-wsdl2java-not-generating-javadoc-for-members
I noticed that there is a lack of support for xsd:documentation in XJC. Generated code representing some elements (like properties or attributes) does not have proper javadocs based on xsd:documentation. There is JAXB bug raised:
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-172
but it is not resolved for over 7 years. There is also link to CXF bug CXF-2486 and there is Dan Kulp's comment:
{quote}
If you'd like to donate the code to CXF, we could certainly use it. CXF
already has a couple plugins to workaround XJC issues. 
{quote}

However I didn't see such a plugin in CXF project, I didn't found it on the internet. So I decided to try to develop one. The result is available at my github account:
https://github.com/destin/xjc-javadoc-plugin
The plugin solves CXF-2486 problem (output java file is available as attachment) and makes generated files better documented. I am willing to contribute this plugin to CXF XJC utils (http://cxf.apache.org/xjc-utils.html).

I tested it on several larger XSD files, also there are few almost end-to-end automated tests.

Please let me know whether you are interested in taking over this plugin and what modifications do you expect.



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