Javadoc is a tool developed by Sun Microsystems that generates a set of coordinated web pages describing the API for the code you write. The best documentation on Javadoc appears to be Sun's own, since other people have not felt the need to try to create something better, as they do with many other systems.

• The primary page for Javadoc is this one: http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/index.html, with links to many others.



• One of the primary pages linked to from the main page above, is the FAQ



• Another is a page on how to write Javadoc comments:



• A systematic approach to writing API documentation is described here, with suggested standards for writing descriptions of classes, functions, arguments, variables, etc.



• The first example of javadoc for COM1204 Spring 2001 can be found by looking at the Demo1 project page, which links to the source code for its three class files for a tiny subset of a phone system as well as linking to the Javadoc-generated API pages for the code.

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