Is this excessive commenting?

[Yucca Nel]

Dilema is as follows... a choice needed to be made. I was either to provide a class that had no use other then to extract the magic cookie and the num of fields and record size. But opted to not include it in my code as it does not give an function or benefits to the program.
The end result is this...

  //The following value has been returned by the current database by reading
    //the [4]-[7]bytes from the start of the database and indicate the number of
    //fields in each current Contractor record in the database.
    //The value is an int and has been hardcoded to provide a size that is used
    //in creating an Array to be used when constructing a Contractor
    public static final int CURRENT_NUM_OF_FIELDS = 6;   

Where i leave a huge comment that I hope the assesor and future programmers will find usefull in knowing how and where I get these values.

Should I rather opt for the class to show how I got this value(even going as far as just creating a static class to open the database and make these available as constants)?

[Yucca Nel]

I forgot to mention that my previous choices was to hardcode the values at the start of the database into my Value object by opening them in a static class and making them static.

something like this

  public static final int = DBA.magic  //magic was a final static int in class DA  

And I would have done an assertion test to test my assumption but am under the impression that all Data value objects should have no coupling.