Real World XML

Commenting Your Code

As with JavaScript, you can comment your Java code. Comments serve the same purpose here as they do in XML and JavaScript: They hold descriptive code that explains what's going on in your code. There are two ways to insert comments in a Java program. The first way is to surround comments, especially multiline comments, with the characters /* and */, like this:

					/* This application is designed to display
					the message "Welcome to Java" on the console
					*/

public class ch10_01
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.out.println("Welcome to Java");
    }
}

As with any type of comment, the Java compiler ignores the text in the comment—that is, any text between the /* and */ markers.

As with JavaScript, Java supports a one-line ...