FichteFoll
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9 years ago For some details, it appears that the < is matched as the opening of a HTML tag. I don't know how exactly HTML is parsed in javadoc, but even if this is actually expected and the < should be escaped as <, it should at least terminate on the end of the comment.
The less than operator isn't being parsed correctly in /* / style of comments. Check out the picture below. If you have a '<' by itself it becomes yellow and if you have '<' followed by an alphanumeric character, the character that follows it will be highlighted teal and the '<' is highlighted magenta/that pinkish color.