If you (like me) really don’t like to violate DRY, then this is one of the most important lines of the javadoc ref:
It is possible to have a comment with only a tag section and no main description.
(@see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/javadoc.html#tagsection)
So it is perfectly valid (and working) for simple methods to write your javadoc like:
/**
* @return the name of the object
*/
public String getName();
So you could even write something like this:
/**
* @return the n-th element of the object
*
* @param n index of element to get
*/
public String get( int n );
Which is (after a little getting to know each other) more readable in source and better maintainable as the longer form which violates DRY.