What's the different types of comments in IntelliJ IDEA?

Question

I've started yesterday to use IntelliJ IDEA for java programming, before I was using Eclipse.

I've noticed that there are two types of comments that this software uses (excluding the classic //comment here):

/* comment here */ and it will be displayed in grey
/** comment here */ and it will be displayed in green

what is the difference between the two? when should I use one, when the other?

First one is multi line comment and second is documentation comment. — Shriram, Jun 09 '16 at 16:22

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '16 at 16:30

/*.....*/

If you want to comment out multiple line you need to use the multi line comment.

If you want to provide proper documentation to your methods/variables you need to use documentation comments. Since there is a tool which comes with jdk, which will create a documentation for your classes.

/**
* This method is used to ...
*/
e.g  public void method()
{
//your logic
}

Also you can use it for variable too.

/**
* This variable is used for ...
*/
private static int s=99;

What's the different types of comments in IntelliJ IDEA?

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