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XDoclet

Java Attribute-oriented Library

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XDoclet is an open-source code generation library that enables Attribute-oriented programming for Java via insertion of special Javadoc tags. It comes with a library of predefined tags, which simplify coding for various technologies: Java EE, Web services, Portlet etc.

01Example

A typical XDoclet comment might look like this:

/**** * This is the Account entity bean. It is an example of how to use the * EJBDoclet tags. * * @see Customer * * @ejb.bean * name="bank/Account" * type="CMP" * jndi-name="ejb/bank/Account" * local-jndi-name="ejb/bank/LocalAccount" * primkey-field="id" * schema = "Customers" * * @ejb.finder * signature="java.util.Collection findAll()" * unchecked="true" * * @ejb.finder signature="java.util.Collection findByName(java.lang.String name)" * unchecked="true" * query= "SELECT OBJECT(o) FROM Customers AS o WHERE o.name * LIKE ?1" * * @ejb.transaction * type="Required" * * @ejb.interface * remote-class="test.interfaces.Account" * * @ejb.value-object * match="*" * * @version 1.5 */

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