Generate Java API docs | javadoc cheat-sheet

javadoc is a command-line tool to generate Java API documentation in HTML format from source code.

Generate documentation for Java source code and save the result in a directory:

javadoc -d path/to/directory/ path/to/java_source_code

Generate documentation with a specific encoding:

javadoc -docencoding UTF-8 path/to/java_source_code

Generate documentation excluding some packages:

javadoc -exclude package_list path/to/java_source_code

More information: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/specs/man/javadoc.html .

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