How can I exclude or skip certain public members or classes from being documented?

Occasionally you might need to make a class or method public so that it can be accessible from other packages, not because you want it to be part of the public API. Having these methods appear in the documentation merely confuses application developers. There is currently no Javadoc option to hide, exclude or suppress public members from the javadoc-generated documentation.

Several options are available: • Excluding source files - You can pass into javadoc only the source filenames for all classes you want to document, and exclude those you want to omit. Notice this has the granularity of files, not classes. Therefore, if you exclude a source file that contains nested classes, they would also be excluded.

(You can put the list of classes in a command line argument file rather than directly on the command line.) The default Javadoc offers no way to omit classes when passing in package names on the command line. • Excluding individual classes - You can use the Exclude Doclet. This has ... more.

Often you need to make a method public so that it can be accessible from other packages, not because you want it to be part of the public API. Having these methods appear in the documentation merely confuses application developers. There is currently no way to hide, exclude or suppress public members from the javadoc-generated documentation.

If you want to exclude public classes or interfaces, you cannot do so when specifying package names on the command line. The only option is to pass into javadoc the source filenames for all classes you want to document, excluding those you don't want (which we realize is quite inconvenient). (You can put the list of classes in a command line argument file rather than directly on the command line.) While knowledge of these public members is not needed by application developers, it is needed by re-implementors of the code.

Since the API specs for the Java platform that Sun publishes are meant to be complete enough for re-implementors, the Java ... more.

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