{"id":2564,"date":"2016-06-22T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T10:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2021-03-21T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T09:57:25","slug":"why-are-comments-important-in-a-java-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/why-are-comments-important-in-a-java-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are comments important in a java program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/h3>\n

Comments are readable text in the java source code. The main reason to add comments to source code is to make the code easy to understand for humans.<\/p>\n

Single & Multiline comments<\/h3>\n

https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/java-program-structure\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Readability<\/h3>\n

Comments help understand the code written to other developers in the team. We can add important details, code examples in the comments to a better understanding of the code logic.<\/p>\n

Complex programs need well-written comments in the code explaining the algorithm etc.<\/p>\n

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\"Java<\/p>\n

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Add to Java Documentation<\/h3>\n

Comments also add to the Project documentation HTML files. Example of generating and adding java documentation is at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/working-with-documentation-comments-in-java\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Legal Info<\/h3>\n

Most application source code files have license information in the comments section. An example of a comment that has license information is:<\/p>\n

\/* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
\n* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
\n* this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
\n* The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
\n* (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with
\n* the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
\n*
\n* http:\/\/www.apache.org\/licenses\/LICENSE-2.0
\n*\/<\/p>\n

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TO-DOs<\/p>\n

Code templates: we can configure auto-generation of comments in the Code templates.<\/p>\n

Example of To-do generated for a method body.<\/p>\n

\"To-Do<\/p>\n

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