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This document is a summary of the information found on the Oracle website: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index-jsp-135444.html My goal is to give you a summarized version of the following topics: ·          What is Javadoc and why is it needed? ·          How to document your code using Javadoc ·          How to generate Javadoc documentation ·          How to publish Javadoc What is Javadoc and why is it needed? In simple terms, Javadoc is a tool for documenting your code in HTML format. Because this documentation is in HTML, it can be easily uploaded to a web server and made available online for the whole world to see. An example of this is the Java API ( https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/ ). For many developers, one of the selling points of Java over ...