What are docstrings called in java?

Question

Before Java methods we have something like:

/**  * Takes a number and returns its square root.  * @param x The value to square.  * @return The square root of the given number.  */ public float getSqrt(float x) { ... }

Does this have a name (like docstrings in Python)?

Answer 1

Actually, they are called document comments and javadoc is a tool to generate those comments into HTML.

You can find the structure of the Javadoc comment in Wikipedia (for example).

Answer 2

Yup, it's called javadoc.