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Java Documentation Made Easy

Document! X is a combination of an automated Java Documentation Tool and a full documentation authoring environment which can be used to create and maintain accurate, professional quality .Java documentation, leveraging your existing Javadoc source comments where available.

Document! X is not just an automated documentation build tool - it also includes a fully featured documentation authoring environment allowing you to author supplementary content (descriptions and remarks for Types, members, hyperlinks to related pages, example code, index kewords etc.) where required.

Document! X produces a professional quality documentation set leveraging your existing Javadoc source comments - automatically - with the ability to author additional content outside of the source code.

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Demonstration Movies

These short movies provide a great way to discover what can be achieved using Document! X.

Documenting a Javascript Library

This movie will demonstrate how Document! X can be used to create documentation for Javascript, both simple javascript function libraries as well as javascript object models and jQuery plugins and widgets. (13 mins)

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Publishing to a web site, ftp server or network location

This movie demonstrates the new Publishing functionality introduced in 2015.1. Publishing makes it easy to publish output generated by Document! X or HelpStudio to a web server or network location. A range of publishing methods are supported; you can publish to an Azure web site, a web site running on IIS, a web site that supports uploading via ftp, or directly to a local network path. (11 mins)

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Automatic optimization for Tablet and Mobile devices

This video demonstrates how the Responsive Output feature allows you to generate content that automatically adapts to the device type of the browser, providing an optimal experience for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop users from a single output. (5 mins)

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Documenting Java Projects

This short introductory movie will take you through using Document! X to create a documentation set for a Java Project (7 minutes).

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Using Build Profiles to create multiple outputs

This short video provides a demonstration of how you can configure a project to create multiple outputs from a single source, with each output driven by a separate options defined in the Build Profile. (3 minutes)

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Single Source Build and Publish

Your documentation projects can be built to Browser Help or CHM (Html Help 1.x). The specific requirements for the different output formats are handled for your automatically and you can build all outputs from a single project. Automatic publishing makes it quick and simple to deploy the generated output to your web site, ftp server or network location.

Browser Help

Browser Help output is viewable directly in the web browser, so is the ideal format for publishing documentation on a web site or intranet site. The browser help output includes a Table of Contents, Index and Full Text Search.

Tablet and Mobile Support

The automatically generated responsive support allows you to generate a single output that automatically adapts to the device profile; delivering an optimal browsing experience for Desktop, Tablet and Mobile from a single output. Tablet and Mobile devices benefit from buttonized links, a button based fly out Table of Contents and other automatic features that dramatically improve the end user experience.

Html Help 1.x (CHM)

Html Help 1.x (CHM) is the Microsoft Windows compiled help file format. When building to CHM, the output is a single file that can be deployed to, and viewed on, any machine with Windows installed. The CHM viewer includes a Table of Contents, Index and Full Text Search.

Publish to network path, ftp, Azure and IIS

Your built documentation can be automatically published to a range of locations; a network path, ftp server, Azure web site or IIS (Internet Information Services) Server. Publishing recongizes which files have changed in the last build, so publishing is quick and minimizes network traffic.

Community Features

The generated output can be automatically integrated with a range of Community Providers (Facebook, Disqus, Livefyre or SolidOpinion) allowing you to include rich community features in your help systems.

Sample Outputs

These sample outputs illustrate how much can be generated by Document! X right out of the box. All of the Document! X Templates are fully customizable and can be easily adapted or extended to meet your specific requirements.

Class Overview Page

Overview of the class, including an automatically generated Object Relationship Diagram, Inheritance Hierarchy and Syntax.

Class Members Page

Type members page, listing the members implemented by this type.

Method Page

Page generated for a Method, including parameters and Syntax section.

Overload List Page

Page generated for an overloaded method, listing the overloads.

Enum Page

Page generated for an enumeration, listing the enumeration members.

Package Overview Page

Page generated for a Package, listing the Types included in the Package.

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Document Everything

Document! X doesn't just document Java Projects, it supports a wide variety of solution elements. One consistent and comprehensive toolset for all of your technical documentation requirements.