Overridden methods in JavaDoc

Question

I\'m documenting a Java program that I have developed, and wanted to know if JavaDoc will be generated for an inherited method (which is overridden) if I just document the s

Answer 1

[I] wanted to know if JavaDoc will be generated for an inherited method (which is overridden) if I just document the superclass?

Yes. If you don't have javadoc comments on a subclass, javadocs will be be generated based on the superclasses javadoc.

If you define javadocs in the subclass they will replace the inherited javadocs, but you can use {@inheritDoc} to include the respective superclass javadoc comments in the subclass javadocs.

Reference:

• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/javadoc.html#inheritingcomments