Steps for creating custom doclet

Question

I'm a complete newbie to this whole JavaDoc Doclet stuff. I trying to create a custom Doclet I think. I want to use all the standard annotations but add 1 of my one aswell and a method so only the methods with my annotation is shown.
I have a custom Doclet from the sun tutorial but don't have it creating a html file in docs folder or have it recognising any of the standard annotations. It doesn't extend or implement anything.
Any advice on the step to take when creating a Doclet would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply Leonid, still confused do.
I'd like to create a HTML page that will show all the standard annotations/tags but also a custom tag. From the tutorial I have:
import com.sun.javadoc.*;
public class ListClass {
    public static boolean start(RootDoc root) {
         String tagName = "myTag";
         writeContents(root.classes(), tagName);
         return htmlDoclet.start(root);
         return true;
    private static void writeContents(ClassDoc[] classes, String tagName) {
         for (int i=0; i < classes.length; i++) {
            boolean classNamePrinted = false;
            MethodDoc[] methods = classes.methods();
for (int j=0; j < methods.length; j++) {
     Tag[] tags = methods[j].tags(tagName);
          if (tags.length > 0) {
          if (!classNamePrinted) {
          System.out.println("\n" + classes[i].name() + "\n");
          classNamePrinted = true;
          System.out.println(methods[j].name());
          for (int k=0; k < tags.length; k++) {
          System.out.println(" " + tags[k].name() + ": " + tags[k].text());
Should I be extending Standard or Doclet, I tried to extend Standard but it said it couldn't find myTag.
I read a few places it's probably easier to just create the whole Doclet thing from scratch but is very time consuming and seems a bit daunting to me.
I'm probably not making much sense but I'm a bit lost with all this.