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.

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Solution 1 - Java

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.

Solution 2 - Java

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.

Solution 3 - Java

How about the JDK source code?

Solution 4 - Java

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

Solution 5 - Java

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

Solution 6 - Java

Solution 7 - Java

The documentation of Google Guava's EventBus package and classes is a good example of Javadoc. Especially the package documentation with the quick start is well written.

Solution 8 - Java

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

Solution 9 - Java

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

How to Write Doc Comments for the Javadoc Tool

Solution 10 - Java

If you are using Eclipse, then you can setup your JDK (not JRE) in Installed JREs, and then use Open Type (Ctrl + Shift + T), give something like java.util.Collections

Solution 11 - Java

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.

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