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What is the difference between the Eclipse comment types?

I am building a nice color scheme at Eclipse Color Themes (which greatly enhances the Eclipse experience, thank you very much!). And I see that there are many different comment types. I understand some of them, but would like to find a definitive description of the varying comment types. Here they are:

  • singleLineComment
  • multiLineComment
  • commentTaskTag
  • javadoc
  • javadocLink
  • javadocTag
  • javadocKeyword

If anyone knows of a link to a place that describes the important features/aspects of these different comment types, please let me know (google search was very unsatisfactory). Thanks!

Solution 
  • //singleLineComment

/*multiple
  line
  comment*/

//TODO commentTaskTag
//FIXME commentTaskTag
//XXX commentTaskTag

/**
 * javadoc
 *
 */

/**
 * javadocLink
 * {@link}
 */

/**
 * javadocTag
 * <a href="" />
 */

/**
 * javadocKeyword
 * @author Jagger
 */