/** and /* in Java Comments

Question

What\'s the difference between

/**
 * comment
 *
 *
 */

and

/*
 * 
 * comment
 *
 */

in Java? When shou

Answer 1

Java supports two types of comments:

• /* multiline comment */ : The compiler ignores everything from /* to */. The comment can span over multiple lines.

• // single line : The compiler ignores everything from // to the end of the line.

Some tool such as javadoc use a special multiline comment for their purpose. For example /** doc comment */ is a documentation comment used by javadoc when preparing the automatically generated documentation, but for Java it's a simple multiline comment.