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[dev-200408241800, JDK 1.5.0 b63] If project contains no classes and user invokes 'Generate Javadoc for project' build fails. I know it's correct, but error message exposes link to build script which is not OK. Maybe some preconditions (are there any classes?) check could be done before invoking the action.
Too pathological to waste CPU time checking for it in advance, IMHO.
Well, then it should be fixed another way, but bare link to build.xml cannot be exposed to user after build failed. User will see the link and click it and then what ..? Will fix the problem in the script?
No, the user will create some source files! Why would you try to generate Javadoc if you had no source files?? Sorry, I really don't consider this important enough to fix. You can always construct some pathological situation that the IDE doesn't produce a perfect response for, but we're not going to fix all of them; there are more important things to spend time on.
Sorry, I don't share your optimism, the world is far from ideal and user can easily invoke that action by accident if more project nodes are expanded in Projects view and he wants to invoke Javadoc for one of them, but does it for the other one. You get to this pathological situation by two clicks (e.g. on just created library). I'm reopening and lowering the priority, because I still think that the situation should be handled better than showing link to build script.
As you like, but I have no plans to waste time on it.
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