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+<h3><a name="REGEXP"></a><br>
+REGEXP</h3>
+<p> REGEXP is a list of wildcard patterns that determines which packages listed
+ in CORE_PKGS.gmk go into which summary-table on the main API index page. It
+ was motivated by the need to divide the world into "core packages"
+ (java.*) and "extension packages" (javax.*). In time, the distinction
+ went away. The whole table is now called "Platform Packages"--which
+ eliminated the need for this list of regular expressions. But it lingered on,
+ accreting all of the packages in the JVM, one by one. I pruned it back to "*",
+ so it now covers every package in the Java platform API docs. If some separation
+ is needed in the future, it can grow back into a colon-separated list, starting
+ with this, which is in all respects equivalent to "*" at this point
+ in time:</p>
+<blockquote>
+ <pre>REGEXP = "java.*:javax.*:org.ietf*:org.omg.</pre>
+</blockquote>
+<h3><a name="releaseTargets"></a><br>
+ Release Targets</h3>
+<p> (Thanks to Kelly O'Hair for this info.)</p>
+<p> The <tt>rel-coredocs</tt> and <tt>rel-docs</tt> targets were added by Eric
+ Armstrong. <tt>rel-coredocs</tt> assumes the kind of large, 32-bit machine used
+ in the javapubs group's docs-release process. It specifies memory settings accordingly
+ to maximize performance.</p>
+<p> The performance settings, like the sanity check, are most important for the
+ core docs--the platform APIs. Running javadoc on those APIs takes a significant
+ amount of time and memory. Setting the initial heap size as large as possible
+ is important to prevent thrashing as the heap grows. Setting the maximum as
+ large as necessary is also important to keep the job from failing.</p>
+<blockquote>
+ <p> <tt>-J-Xmx512</tt> sets a maximum of 512, which became necessary in 6.0<br>
+ <tt>-J-Xms256</tt> sets starting size to 256 (default is 8)</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p> <tt>rel-coredocs</tt> also includes a sanity check to help ensure that <tt>BUILD_NUMBER</tt>
+ and <tt>MILESTONE</tt> are specified properly when docs are built outside of
+ the normal release engineering process, with the intention of releasing them
+ on the web or in a downloaded docs bundle. (When invoked in release engineering's
+ control build, the values are always set properly. But when the targets are
+ run by themselves, they default to b00 and "internal"--which silently
+ sabotage the result of a build that can take many hours to complete.</p>
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