javadoc Command Examples

Generate Java API documentation in HTML format from source code. More information: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/specs/man/javadoc.html.

• 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}}