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  3. Introduction

The javadoc tool generates HTML documentation from Java source files.

The javadoc tool locates and parses the documentation comments present in a Java source file and produces a set of HTML pages describing the class, methods, and variables present in the source file.

The syntax to use the javadoc tool is:

javadoc [options] [packagenames] [sourcefilenames] [-subpackages pkg1:pkg2:...] [@argfiles]
  1. options refers to the command line options that you can pass to the javadoc tool.
  2. packagenames refers to multiple packages, separated by spaces, that javadoc should use to generate documentation. For example:
  3. packagesnames java.lang java.lang.reflect java.awt
  4. sourcefilenames refers to the source files for which javadoc needs to generate documentation.
  5. -subpackages: Generates documentation from the source files in specified packages and recursively in their subpackages.
  6. @argfiles: Refers to a file that contains Javadoc options.








1.1.Introduction
1.1.1.Developing a Java program involves
1.1.2.JDK Utilities
1.1.3.See the details of the compilation: use the verbose option
1.1.4.A profiler is used to analyze how much time a program spends in each part of the code.
1.1.5.The syntax to use the javac tool
1.1.6.Java Compiler Options
1.1.7.The java Tool
1.1.8.Commonly Used Java Command Options
1.1.9.The javadoc Tool
1.1.10.The jar Tool
1.1.11.The javap Tool
1.1.12.Some of the Options Supported by the javap Utility
1.1.13.The jarsignature Tool
1.1.14.The native2ascii Tool
1.1.15.The jconsole Tool
1.1.16.Set the memory available to the JVM
1.1.17.Java memory command line arguments