There's some interesting discussion at The Cafes today about whether there's a significant speed difference between != and <=. I wouldn't have believed it, but it looks like there might be, at least on server VMs. I'm quite suspicious of such micro-optimizations, but I will have to investigate this further.
Sun has submitted JSR 260: Javadoc Tag Technology Update, to the Java Community Process (JCP). According to the JSR:
This JSR will investigate various improvements to javadoc tags, including for example:
- categorization of methods and fields by their target use
- semantical index of classes and packages
- distinction of static, factory, deprecated methods from ordinary methods
- distinction of property accessors from ordinary methods
- combining and splitting information into views
- embedding of examples, common use-cases along with Javadoc
This JSR will also investigate possible representations of the document generated by the Javadoc tool from Javadoc comments using new tags.
This sounds like something that's long overdue. Comments are due by December 13.