Question

I like to put my email address within @author tags and would like them to be clickable mailto: links in the generated Javadoc.

How should I go about doing this correctly?

/**
 * I currently do the following, but would like to have my name 
 * displayed as the link rather than the email itself.
 *
 * @author {@link "mailto:[e-mail]"}
 */
public class Useless { }

---

/**
 * I've tried this, but get warnings about unexpexted text where my name is.
 *
 * @author {@link "mailto:[e-mail]" "Benoit St-Pierre"}
 */
public class Useless { }

Answer 1

The {@link} is Javadoc-specific markup. Javadocs, though, are HTML – so you can simply use

/**
 * Embed HTML directly into the Javadoc.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Benoit St-Pierre</a>
 */
public class Useless { }

Whether that’s a good idea or not is a different matter. 🙂