Sun Certification Training Guide (310-025, 310-027): Java™ 2 Programmer and Developer Exams

Comments

Java provides three styles of comments:

/* This is a
   multiline comment. */

// This is a single-line comment.

/** This is a
    multiline javadoc comment */

The first comment style supports traditional C-language comments. All text that appears between /* and */ is treated as a comment. Comments of this style can span multiple lines.

The second comment style supports single line C++ comments. All text following the // until the end of the line is treated as a comment.

The third comment style is used by the javadoc documentation generation tool. All text between the /** and */ is treated as a javadoc comment. javadoc comments can span multiple lines. You do not need to know about javadoc on the certification exam. However, if you are interested, ...