While you probably know that the javadoc tool is used to generate the standard code documentation, you may be unaware that the javadoc is a pluggable documentation tool. That means you can create your ...
Three years ago, I wrote about practices that I believe lead to more effective Javadoc in my post More Effective Javadoc. In this post, I look at some familiar projects which provide good examples of ...
Andrew Binstock’s recent review of the book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship got me thinking about what I like and dislike about working with Javadoc. The specific comment that ...
JEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23. This feature proposes to enable JavaDoc documentation comments to be written in Markdown ...
Inline comments, also known as single-line Java comments, begin with two slashes, and only impact the code on the line in which they appear. The following is an example of a single-line comment in ...
Documenting your code is a critical part of development, but too many developers pay too little attention to proper commenting. C++ devs have a tool that can help. Javadoc is a standard tool that ...