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When creating javadoc, NB currently does not recognize overview.html as the overview file. It would also be very handy for NB to recognize the existence of overview.html and include that in the javadoc rather than requiring the developer to copy the javadoc section from build-impl.xml and insert it into build.xml with an extra attribute to force overview.html's inclusion. For Java ME builds, it is important that this file is NOT automatically placed in the JAD/JAR - see 151905.
How the entire NetBeans handle this? Tim could you look?
See http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/javadoc.html In nbproject/project.properties javadoc.Overview=path/to/overview.html AFAIK there is no standard location or naming convention for this file, since it can reside anywhere in the project (or even outside its file tree), unlike package.html which are tied to java packages. For all of my projects in which I've ever had an overview page, I had to manually modify the project.properties. It wouldn't be a bad thing to have a default location (say, the project root) for the overview file; however, that should be taken care of for all java project types, not just mobility. Turning this issue into an enhancement to the java module. The change would be pretty simple - just add javadoc.Overview=overview.html to expect it in the project root. If folks there agree, we can make a similar change in the mobility project modules.