Overview of Java documentation generation

Introduction

Java documentation generation onsists of producing HTML files from the generated .java files. The JDK javadoc tool is used for this purpose. The produced documentation can be visualized using an HTML explorer.

Java documentation generation

Java documentation can be generated for a package or a class.

For ...	the documentation generation command ...
a package	generates documentation for all the package's classes
a class	generates documentation for the class only