Fixed ‘View Javadoc in external Browser’ in IntelliJ IDEA

mjava — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:44:56 +0000

An annoyance in IntelliJ IDEA was that the command ‘View Javadoc in external Browser’ did not work
per default on a mac. On a mac with it’s own java sources the api-doc are located inside a jar and therefore
not able to browse through a normal webbrowser. (If you know a browser which can handle a jar://xxx address let me now in a comment)

IntelliJ does not open or extract those files per default so I did by hand with:

cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home jar xf docs.jar // this will extract the contents of the jar jar xf appledocs.jar // dito

No we need to point IntelliJ to the extracted files. Open your Preferences -> Project Preferences.
Click on the desired JDK and then click on the tab ‘javadocs’. Remove the old entries for the jar and enter
the extracted path/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/docs/api /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/appledocs/api

Not it works. To test it, move the cursor to a class,member whatever and press +. The appropriate javadoc should open in your default browser.

This is not a bug fix, just a bad default configuration. I’d like to see this fixed in the next release…

IntelliJ IDEA

mjava — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:38:43 +0000

7.0.3 is out now. get it!

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Fixed ‘View Javadoc in external Browser’ in IntelliJ IDEA

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