Javadoc

Definitions

1. The Java documentation system that extracts specially formatted source comments and generates reference docs for classes, methods, parameters, and packages. Javadoc comments also support structured tags such as @param, @return, and @throws that IDEs and build tools understand.

   In plain English: It is the standard way Java developers write comments that turn into official API documentation.

   Example: "Add Javadoc to the public client before we ship the SDK, otherwise nobody will know the retry semantics."

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