• Occur only with /** ... */ comments
• Standalone doc tages, are at the beginning of a comment line
• Inline doc tags, appear anywhere within a Javadoc comment
• Javadoc will process comment documentation for only public and protected members

• @see, standalone doc tag, hyperlinked to the other documentation
  • @see package.class#member label
  • @see #method(Type, ...), refer current class member
  • @see class, refer class in the same package
  • @see package.class, refer class in the different package
  • @see <a href = "url">, refer a external link
• @author, add author information with javadoc -author
• @version, add version information
• @param parameterName description, parameterName should be same as the parameter name in function
• @throws fullyQualifiedClassName description, add exception information
• @return description, add return information
• {@link package.class#member label}, inline doc tag, add hyperlink
• {@docRoot}, produces the relative path to the documentation root directory

• -d dir, figure out output directory
• -author, display author information in generated doc
• -version, display version information
• -header, include header in each page
• -footer, include footer in each page
• -top, add information on the top of each page
• -bottom, add information on the bottom of each page

package Doc;

import java.util.*;

/** <h3>Javadoc Tutorial</h3>
 * <br>
 * <ul>
 * <li>Occur only within doc comments</li>
 * <li>Javadoc will process comment documentation for only public and protected members</li>
 * </ul>
 * @see Buick
 * @see Doc.A.Honda
 * @see <a href = "https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html">String</a>
 * @see #setMaker(String)
 * @author <a href = "mailto:lchen@ecsu.edu">Lin Chen</a>
 * @author Yanhua Feng
 * @version 1.0
 * @since 09.27.2017
 */
public class Car
{
	private String maker;

	/** Initialize Car with maker name
	 * @param c maker name
	 */
	public Car(String c)
	{
		maker = c;
	}

	/** Get make name
	 * @return maker name
	 */
	public String getMaker()
	{
		return maker;
	}

	/** Set maker
	 * @param m maker name
	 */
	public void setMaker(String m)
	{
		maker = m;
	}

	/** Convert a Car object to string
	 * @return string
	 */
	public String toString()
	{
		return "Car: "+maker;
	}
}
			

package Doc;
/** <h3>Javadoc Tutorial</h3>
 * <ul>
 * <li>Related to <a href = "{@docRoot}/index.html">Root</a></li>
 * </ul>
 * @author Lin Chen
 * @author https://lin-chen-va.github.io/
 * @version 1.0
 */
public class Buick
{
	private String color;

	public Buick(String c)
	{
		color = c;
	}

	public String toString()
	{
		return "Car: "+maker;
	}
}
			

package Doc.A;
/** <h3>Javadoc Tutorial</h3>
 * @see Doc.Car
 * @see Doc.Buick
 */
public class Honda
{
	private String color;

	public Honda(String c)
	{
		color = c;
	}

	public String toString()
	{
		return "Car: "+maker;
	}
}
			

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