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Inheriting an Overridden Method Comments

When implementing an interface method in an implementation class without providing any javadoc for the overridden method, the overridden method automatically inherits the javadoc of the interface method, with some additional clarifying message to the effect that the documentation was inherited:

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If the overridden method provides its own javadoc, it will overwrite the interface javadoc:

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However, if the overridden

An overridden method automatically inherits the javadoc of its


If you define javadocs in the subclass they will replace the inherited javadocs, but you can use {@inheritDoc} to include the respective superclass javadoc comments in the subclass javadocs.