Javadoc Clutter

I once thought Javadoc was a great tool. I added an ant target for every project I built. Now it’s just clutter. I saw another example of the pain point of Javadoc again recently on an internal project that isn’t designed to ever be used as an API:

/*
* Returns Publisher when passed Id
*/
public Publisher getPublisherById(String id)

/*
* Returns Publisher when passed Id
*/
public Publisher getInstitutionById(String id)

Just drives me crazy the comments fall out of sync with the code as soon as someone performs a cut and paste. And the darn things can double the number of lines in a class, especially when you have a lot of short methods. (And you should have a lot of short methods.) Uggh.