>>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart Ballard <stuart.a.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Stuart> What are the odds of replacing it by calls into ecj's parsing engine, Stuart> since that's already pretty mature and implemented in pure Java? Yeah, I've been wondering that myself. Actually I thought Eclipse already had a lot of javadoc parsing and formatting code in it -- since, e.g., it detects a lot of javadoc errors and it can show a tooltip with javadoc in it for code in the project you're editing. I wonder if we could make a standalone Eclipse-based javadoc the same way there is ecj and the standalone code formatter... Tom