good example of Javadoc

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is there a good example of a source file containing Javadoc?

I can find lots of good examples of Javadoc on the internet, I would just like to find out the particular syntax used to create them, and assume I can pore through the source of some library somewhere but that seems like a lot of work.

user_1035 · Answer

How about the JDK source code, but accessed through a 3rd party like docjar? For example, the Collections source.

That way, there's no big download.

user_73019 · Answer

The page How to Write Doc Coments for the Javadoc Tool contains a good number of good examples. One section is called Examples of Doc Comments and contains quite a few usages.

Also, the Javadoc FAQ contains some more examples to illustrate the answers.

user_78677 · Answer

How about the JDK source code?

user_89266 · Answer

I use a small set of documentation patterns:

always documenting about thread-safety
always documenting immutability
javadoc with examples (like Formatter)
@Deprecation with WHY and HOW to replace the annotated element

user_93960 · Answer

Have a look at Spring framework source, it has excellent javadocs

user_5346 · Answer

ANT for example - source code browsable online: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DefaultLogger.java?view=co

To choose other files start from: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/?pathrev=761528

user_21886 · Answer

Download the sources of Lucene and see how they do it. They have good JavaDocs.

user_113845 · Answer

If all your looking for is the syntax, then this may help:

How to Write Doc Comments for the Javadoc Tool

user_53897 · Answer

If you install a JDK and choose to install sources too, the src.zip contains the source of ALL the public Java classes. Most of these have pretty good javadoc.

good example of Javadoc

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