Java Programming 4U | Syntax

Comments

Java has three kinds of comments: traditional comments, end-of-line comments and documentation comments.

Examples: Traditional comments start with /* and end with */, they may span across multiple lines. This type of comments was derived from C and C++.

   1:  /* This is a multi-line comment.

   2:  It may occupy more than one line. */

End-of-line comments start with // and extend to the end of the current line. This comment type is also present in C++ and in modern C.

   1:  // This is an end-of-line comment

Documentation comments are processed by Javadoc tool to generate documentation from source files. This type of comments is identical to traditional comments, except it starts with /** and follows conventions defined by the Javadoc tool. Technically these comments are a special kind of traditional comments and they are not specifically defined in the language specification.

   1:  /**

   2:   * This is a documentation comment.

   3:   * 

   4:   * @author John Doe

   5:   */

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