JAutodoc is an Eclipse Plugin for automatic adding Javadoc and file headers to your source code. It optionally generates initial comments from element name. Starting with Release 1.3 of JAutodoc it is possible to define Velocity templates for Javadoc and file headers.
The Fat Jar Eclipse Plug-In is a Deployment-Tool which deploys an Eclipse java-project into one executable jar.It adds the Entry "Build Fat-JAR" to the Export-Wizard.In addition to the eclipse standard jar-exporter referenced classes and jars are included to the "Fat-Jar", so the resulting jar contains all needed classes and can be executed directly with "java -jar", no classpath has to be set, no additional jars have to be deployed.
Summary Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature is also available for any other p
ven though Web 2.0 and rich Internet applications (RIAs) are all the rage these days, building a rich Web front end for your stakeholders is not the answer when thick-client functionality is what you really need. I stated as much in my previous article, "Building a Java App Server Foundation for Thick-Client Deployment," which showed how to leverage a traditional Java Web server architecture to easily deploy thick clients.