diff --git a/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/JavaGenerator.java b/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/JavaGenerator.java
index 1a4141e5fb..260d5dcc2f 100644
--- a/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/JavaGenerator.java
+++ b/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/JavaGenerator.java
@@ -4878,7 +4878,8 @@ public class JavaGenerator extends AbstractGenerator {
         // [#5704] Do not allow certain HTML entities
         return comment
             .replace("&", "&")
-            .replace("<", "&lt;");
+            .replace("<", "&lt;")
+            .replace(">", "&gt;");
     }
 
     protected void printClassJavadoc(JavaWriter out, Definition definition) {