A documentation generation tool for Java programming language that creates HTML documentation from Java source code comments. It uses special comment syntax to produce formatted API documentation.
Compound of 'Java' (the programming language, named after Java coffee) and 'doc' (short for documentation). Created by Sun Microsystems in the 1990s as part of the Java development toolkit.
Javadoc revolutionized software documentation by embedding it directly in source code, ensuring docs stay synchronized with the actual implementation. The tool popularized the practice of self-documenting code that many other programming languages later adopted.
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