you got it!!! what you see here is one big, multi-line comment.
many of the fancier editors (Eclipse, Jbuilder, etc) make this even easier. they color-code the different kinds of things in your code. i have mine set up to put all comments in green, keywords in a light blue, object refs in white, etc.
it becomes quite obvious when you forget to close your comment - you have 30 lines of gree code!!! it's still better to learn
java using notepad or something that makes you think about what you're doing first. THEN move to the tools that make the basics easier
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors