In playing with Javadoc, I found a few gotcha's. First, you MUST have the *'s in line.
/** * My File * * @author Ken Moore */
Is correct.
/** * My File * * @author Ken Moore */
Is NOT correct.
To show the tags author and version you must compile as:
javadoc -author -version Ken.java
This compilation command must include the .java extension. The resulting output file will be Ken.html. Ken.html is viewable with internet explorer or any other browser.
Keep in mind that you do javadoc from the command line and it is done in the directory you have saved your java file in.
The rest of the tags seem to work with no problems, as documented on the sun site.
You can view the javadoc compiler flags by typing just javadoc on the command line.