Documentation Comment in java

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The Java language supports three types of comments.

Sr.No.	Comment & Description
1	/* text */ The compiler ignores everything from /* to */.
2	//text The compiler ignores everything from // to the end of the line.
3	/** * documentation */ This is a documentation comment and in general its called doc comment. The JDK javadoc tool uses doc comments when preparing automatically generated documentation.

Program:

 /**
* This is Documentation Section in java
* Program Name     : How to declare and initialize a variable 
* Program Author   : Rumman Ansari
* Program Date     : 12.02.2001
* output           : it will print value of variable j
*/
	
public class MultiLineComment {
public static void main(String[] args) {
/* it's a multiline comment, we are going to
declare and  print variable j . */
    int j=10;
    System.out.println(j);
 }
}

Output:

10
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Explanation:

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