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Context I have a soap web API which is built in java with spring.

The API is part of a service which is one component from a microservice.

There is no possibility of manually writing the documentation. It has to be generated by a tool.

Is there a tool that:

  • can be integrated to my project
  • Will scan the code of my service (mainly the endpoints of the service)
  • is free
  • has a reasonable large community
  • won't require me to write any docstrings, the tool should inspect my code and generate the documentation based on the code, not on the docstrings

The generated documentation should:

  • be in pdf/html format

  • cover each endpoint in the service (the list of required parameters, url to endpoint), basically I want that information about each endpoint to be included in the generated pdf/html

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I'd recommend either doxygen or javadoc. Javadoc is probably easier to setup, and may already be integrated with your IDE.

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  • Isn't there something that will generate the docs based on the code, not on the docstrings?
    – cristid9
    Mar 5, 2019 at 21:34
  • @cristid9 doxygen and javadoc make use of the code but also need some information for the human reader as they cannot guess wat everything does mean.
    – albert
    Mar 6, 2019 at 9:28

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