On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:25:09 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is a simple change to display the first sentence of the service type 
> description in the "Provides" section of a module page if the `@provides` 
> javadoc tag does not contain a description. This is the same we handle 
> entries in the "Uses" section when no description is available from the 
> `@uses` tag. The rationale is that it is still more useful to provide generic 
> information about the service type than nothing if no provider-specific 
> information is available.

Looks good.

I was not familiar with this part of JavaDoc. When comparing source and 
documentation of the JDK, I was somewhat surprised to discover that aside from 
tests, neither `@uses` nor `@provides` specifies the optional description.

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Marked as reviewed by prappo (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6387

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