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The Rules All classes must have a doc comment. All public constants must have a doc comment. All public methods must have a doc comment except: Methods that implement or override a method in an interface or superclass without adding any interesting behaviour beyond what is already documented for the overridden method.

Generate a Javadoc In Eclipse, go to File > Export. Expand Java and select Javadoc. ... Select your project and package. ... Select which visibility option you want: Private, Package, Protected, or Public. ... Make sure the Use standard doclet radio button is selected.

The basic rule for creating JavaDoc comments is that they begin with /** and end with */. You can place JavaDoc comments in any of three different locations in a source file: Immediately before the declaration of a public class. Immediately before the declaration of a public field.

Format of a Doc Comment A doc comment is written in HTML and must precede a class, field, constructor or method declaration. It is made up of two parts -- a description followed by block tags. In this example, the block tags are @param , @return , and @see .

JavaDoc comments, which use a slash-star-star, star-slash ( /** ? */ ) syntax, serve a different purpose from inline comments and multi-line Java comments. Whereas inline and block Java comments are read by other developers who maintain the code, JavaDoc comments are for developers who use your code.

A Javadoc provides a description of the code element located under it and contains block tags marked with @ with specific metadata. You can generate an API reference for your project in HTML by using the Javadoc tool that comes with your JDK.

Javadoc comment are dangling if they don't belong to any class, method or field. For example a Javadoc comment in between method declarations that have their own javadoc comments.