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Javadoc abstracts and children
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Elouise Kivineva
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Joined: Feb 07, 2002
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If I fully documented a method in an abstract class, do I have to repeat the same method javadoc in the child class?
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Michael Morris
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Joined: Jan 30, 2002
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Only if there are special circumstances in the implementation of the subclass. For example if for there are different constraints on the parameters that might cause a ClassCastException to be thrown that coundn't happen in the super class.
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