Documentation of tool.jar classes?

Is there any documentation of the classes located in the JDK's tools.jar? I'm considering writing my own editor, and it'd be very useful to know exactly what I have to work with in terms of interacting with the JDK. I've looked around a bit, and I haven't been able to turn up anything.

I did, well, two of them anyway. Too big. Too complex. Too long a learning curve. Not all the features I'd like. Not simple enough.
I'm currently using Crimson Editor. I was using TextPad. My teacher last year told us to download the "free" version. Truth be told, it's an evaluation version, not free. When I got a new computer, I just didn't want to rip off the people who made TextPad. So I tried out NetBeans. Slow, extremely complex. Scrapped it. Tried jEdit. Less complex, but still not what I wanted. Mainly, I wanted easy project management which it just plain didn't provide, and I didn't feel like hunting down a good plug-in. I considered trying to write my own plug-in, but the code made very little sense. That may be because I'm used to very object oriented (as in I was brought up in programming by Java). Anyhow, thne I tried BlueJ. Crud. Scrapped it. Found Crimson, and am fairly satisfied with it, but...
I'm interested in making a Java editor for dummies, so to speak. ^_^ I want to cut out dealing with the command line stuff. Setting the classpath every time I want to compile or run the program/leaving it permanently set inside a tool, an easy to deal with error system for compilation, a simple jar/zip maker, and other stuff. To do that, I need to know what I have to work with inside the JDK. Hence, the need for documentation. I was actually trying to make a program that would read and analyze all the classes but ran into rather annoying problems, and I'll probably just do that if there isn't any documentation on what's inside tools.jar.
bangs head on wall Ooooohhhhh. You mean look inside those programs to see how they deal with calling javac. A good idea, but if Sun has something, I'd rather use that. Thanks. I appriciate the suggestion. I have a feeling that will come in handi.
It occured to me that running javadoc would be easier than what I'm trying to do. Will javadoc work on pure class files, no source files?

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Hi,
Tag (and everything else in com.sun.javadoc) is an interface, so there are no class (static) methods.
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I have been playing around with the code:
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in my app, I use some classes of tools.jar
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Isn't tools.jar the JDK tools, e.g., javac, javap, etc.?
What are you doing that requires those tools, such that your customer needs it?
Secondly are you sure that Sun's license allows you to distribute the stuff in tools.jar?
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My company has developed an application in which we generate a .java source code file, use the com.sun.tools.javac.Main class to compile it, dynamically load the compiled .class file, and then used the loaded object to do interesting things.
So for our application to work, we need to distribute a compiler along with it. I'd like to just use the com.sun.tools.javac.Main class for this, but it's not a standard part of the JRE. It's contained in the <jdk dir>/lib/tools.jar file. I can't find anything in the JDK license about redistributing this tools.jar file.
Does anyone know if it's OK to redistribute the tools.jar file with your own application? Or is there another compiler that's better to redistribute with your own application?

Normally, you can distribute the JRE which contains tools.jar.
You can also ask Sun for permission to include the file in your product, permission which may or may not be given.
Given that your application is a direct competitor to the JDK itself there may be problems though as Sun does not generally permit competitors to leech off their work as I'm sure you can understand.

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