/** and /* in Java Commenting Code | How to give comments in Java?

Java programs can have two kinds of comments. implementation comments and documentation comments. Implementation comments are those found in C++, which are delimited by /*...*/, and //. Documentation comments (known as "doc comments") are Java-only, and are delimited by /**...*/. Doc comments can be extracted to HTML files using the javadoc tools.

In Java Technology, we can add comments to Java source code in three ways which are given bellow:

1 public class TestComment{

2 // comment on one line

3 public static void main (String [ ] args){

4 /* comment on one

5 * or more lines

6 */

7 System.out.println(”Comments in Java”);

8 }

9 /** documentation comment

10 * can also span one or more lines

11 */

12 }