October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
21h 47m
English
book
NetBeans: The Definitive Guide
by Tim Boudreau, Jesse Glick, Simeon Greene, Vaughn Spurlin, Jack J. Woehr
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Chapter 10. Using Javadoc
Javadoc Support in NetBeans
All programmers
are
familliar with code commenting. The
Java language supports C-style code commenting (/*
and */ for multiline comments and
// for single-line comments) plus an additional
commenting style called “doc
comments.” A doc comment in a Java source file
begins with /** (note the double asteriks) and
ends with */. These comments are viewed as regular
comments by the compiler, but the javadoc tool can be used to parse
them and produce an HTML document known as a Javadoc.
Because doc comments are used to produce HTML they can contain HTML
markup tags. Typically these are HTML formatting tags such as
<B> and <I>. There
are also several special non-HTML tags that can be used. For more
information on the javadoc tool and the Javadoc tags see The Javadoc
Tools Homepage (http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/).
The javadoc tool has been fully integrated into the NetBeans IDE. Developers can search and browse Javadoc libraries (JAR files or folders containing Javadoc HTML files), get context-sensitive Javadocs, add and verify Javadoc tags to their code, and create Javadocs from their source code using the IDE’s Javadoc features.
Mounting Javadocs
Tip
The Javadoc Repository will be removed in NetBeans 3.4.
Before you can search and browse Javadocs, they must be mounted in the Javadoc repository. NetBeans maintains a separate repository for each project you create. The repository contains folders and JAR files that contain Javadocs ...
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