It _might_ be of interest to have an '@tag' tag. The syntax would be:

   @tag <tag_name> comment

Then, javadoc could be told to search for all @tags with 'tag_name', and
list those classes/methods/variables. This would allow quick and dirty
tagging for during development. Admittedly this could be done with
doclets, however, this way it should be a fairly minimal amount of work
to implement, with major and immediate benefit for many.

Obviously, many things wouldn't be checked, such as the correct spelling of
'tag_name', but even that could be added by having one option for
javadoc specifying a list of all allowed 'tag_name's.

The thing that made me think of this, was when I was going through the
Swing classes, and saw lots of places where they were talking about
how such-and-such would be moved elsewhere, or done differently, in
the next version, but these things did not seem to have been done yet -
so I thought of a '@in_development' or '@todo' type tag, but that is, again,
really specific, and not at all useful for post-development support. So, the
'@tag' occurred to me as an ideal way to easily facilitate developers to
add these 'temporary' tags.

Benjamin PFLANZ <###@###.###>