Javadoc allows HTML tags to be embedded in the Javadoc comments. While this is handy for nicely formatted and styled HTML presentation of the comments, it can be distracting for the person trying ...

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 ...

An easy way to get the values of all your tags for a class is to use the tags () method of com.sun.javadoc.ClassDoc. You can call the tags method either with a String object or with no arguments.

Inline JavaDoc tags, such as {@link} and {@code}, are cumbersome and often require referencing documentation for proper usage. Markdown, in contrast, is a lightweight markup language that is easy ...