Comment #7 on issue 476 by anquetil.nicolas: VerveineJ should export some metrics http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/detail?id=476
In VerveineJ, I have attached the javadoc to the entity, but it is not part of the source anchor.
One of the issue is that I don't really have access to it. I can more or less reconstruct the javadoc through the list of its tags, but this is not the "real" comment that is in the source code.
I believe I could get the line number of the javadoc, but I am still not convinced that it would be the ideal solution.
I prefer the idea of doing the minimum processing (and interpretation) possible on the data, and leave the user decide what s-he wants to do with it (given that s-he has the needed elementd for that). I added Cyclomatic and Number of Statement metrics because as you point out, they cannot be computed from the MSE. I am giving the user the possibility to compute the LOC s-he wants, by attaching the source anchor to the code entity (did not do it for the javadoc, but I believe I could). From that s-he is able to compute the LOC s-he wants (with or without javadoc).
Anybody else as an opinion on this to try to find a consensual decision .... ?