SONARJAVA-5472 Add S8491: Detect dangling Javadoc comments#5525
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Implement new rule to detect when multiple Javadoc comments appear before a class, method, or field. Only the last comment is used by the Javadoc tool, making earlier comments "dangling" and potentially misleading. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Implement new rule S8491 to detect when multiple Javadoc comments appear before a class, method, or field. Only the last comment is used by the Javadoc tool, making earlier comments "dangling" and potentially misleading.
Part of SONARJAVA-5472.