boxed comments

Question

hi, I was wondering what's the difference between a javadoc multi-line comment as

e.g.
/** a few comments
*/

and so called "boxed comments", where you put more than 2 asterisk symbols after and before the slashes

e.g.
/******
boxed comment
******/

How does it look like, and what is it used for? Does it have to be "nested" inside the standart javadoc comment?

Answer 1

regular box comment is 1 *
/*
this
Is
all
commented
out
*/

but if you type two, above a function or class or variable. it will create a javadoc

/**
*@author
*@param ...
*@param
*@throws
*@returns
**/

^^^^not all of these will be there when it auto generates only what the function has. this is just an example.
hope this helps!