Javadoc - group static methods?

Zhong Yu zhong.j.yu at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 11:18:18 PST 2012


Hi, would it make more sense in javadoc to group static methods and
give them a distinct section? So we'll probably have sections

  static fields
  static methods
  constructors
  instance fields
  instance methods

Some stats: among public static methods in java.*, apparently 401
methods are factory methods like ByteBuffer.allocate(), 641 are
utility methods in utility classes like Math.max(), and the remaining
377 are like Character.isLowerCase() - utility methods in non-utility
classes.

Zhong Yu


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