I would like to use the {@inheritDoc} class to inherit methods from my abstract class. In the documentation for the abstract class, I refer to the abstract class by name. How can I tag this so when the subclass inherits the documentation from the super class, it replaces the abstract class's name with the subclass's name?
What you are describing is not supported by the javadoc generation tool.
And I think that there is a good reason for this too:
If your method in the subclass is merely an implementation of an abstract method, then I think it would be correct to leave the abstract class' name in there.
On the flip side, if your method in the subclass is not just a simple implementation, and does something more that is noteworthy (enough to be mentioned in the javadoc), then you should write a new javadoc on the method in the subclass, instead of invoking inheritDoc.