For me the /**<NEWLINE> or Shift–Alt–J (or ⌘–⌥–J on a Mac) approach works best. I dislike seeing Javadoc comments in source code that have been auto-generated and have not been updated with real content. As far as I am concerned, such javadocs are nothing more than a waste of screen space. IMO, it is much … Read more
The first form is called Javadoc. You use this when you’re writing formal APIs for your code, which are generated by the javadoc tool. For an example, the Java 7 API page uses Javadoc and was generated by that tool. Some common elements you’d see in Javadoc include: @param: this is used to indicate what … Read more
package-info.java: “This file is new in JDK 5.0, and is preferred over package.html.”—javadoc – The Java API Documentation Generator Addendum: The big difference seems to be package annotations. There’s a little more in the way of rationale in 7.4 Package Declarations. Addendum: The annotation feature is also mentioned here and in Javadoc tip: Prefer package-info … Read more
I can’t find any shortcut to generate javadoc comments. But if you type /** before the method declaration and press Enter, the javadoc comment block will be generated automatically. Read this for more information.
The best way to answer your question is to summarize the answers from Xavier, plastiv, VinceFR and Christopher. Step by step guide In order to link the sources and javadoc to a .jar library that is automatically linked by Eclipse you have to do the following: Place the library .jar file in the libs folder, … Read more
For the Javadoc tag @see, you don’t need to use @link; Javadoc will create a link for you. Try @see com.my.package.Class#method() Here’s more info about @see.
The best solution would be to fix the javadoc errors. If for some reason that is not possible (ie: auto generated source code) then you can disable this check. DocLint is a new feature in Java 8, which is summarized as: Provide a means to detect errors in Javadoc comments early in the development cycle … Read more
As far as I can tell after reading the docs for javadoc there is no such feature. Don’t use <code>foo</code> as recommended in other answers; you can use {@code foo}. This is especially good to know when you refer to a generic type such as {@code Iterator<String>} — sure looks nicer than <code>Iterator<String></code>, doesn’t it!
Use View | Quick Documentation or the corresponding keyboard shortcut (by default: Ctrl+Q on Windows/Linux and Ctrl+J on macOS or F1 in the recent IDE versions). See the documentation for more information. It’s also possible to enable automatic JavaDoc popup on explicit (invoked by a shortcut) code completion in Settings | Editor | General | … Read more
In addition to the already mentioned <pre> tags, you should also use the @code JavaDoc annotation, which will make life much easier when it comes to HTML entities issues (in particular with Generics), e.g.: * <pre> * {@code * Set<String> s; * System.out.println(s); * } * </pre> Will give correct HTML output: Set<String> s; System.out.println(s); … Read more