These annotation types are described in detail in theJava Annotation Typestutorial. Use of Annotations Compiler instructions- Annotations can be used for giving instructions to the compiler, detect errors or su
JSR 308, Annotations on Java Types, has been incorporated as part of Java SE 8. This JSR builds upon the existing annotation framework, allowing type annotations to become part of the language. Beginning in Java SE 8, annotations can be applied to types in addition to all of their existing...
used, how to apply annotations, what predefined annotation types are available in the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE API), how type annotations can be used in conjunction with pluggable type systems to write code with stronger type checking, and how to implement repeating annotations....
* The syntactic locations where annotations may appear are split into * declaration contexts , where annotations apply to declarations, and * type contexts , where annotations apply to types used in * declarations and expressions. * * The constants {@link #ANNOTATION_TYPE} , {@link #CONSTRUCTOR...
Annotations have a number of uses, among them: Information for the compiler Compile-time and deployment-time processing Runtime processing Format and Effect @annotationName{field = val} Declarations: declarations of classes, fields, methods, and other elements. When used on ...
documented by javadoc and similar tools. This type should be used to annotate the declarations of types whose annotations affect the use of annotated elements by their clients. If a type declaration is annotated with Documented, its annotations become part of the public API of the annotated ...
In my previous article in this series, I introduced Java's new metadata facility and described the built-in annotation types @Override,@Deprecated, and @SuppressWarnings. In this article I'll show you how to write your own annotation types and make use of the built-in annotations from the ...
Note that any annotations returned by methods on this interface are type annotations (JLS 9.7.4) as the entity being potentially annotated is a type.See Java Language Specification: 4.1 The Kinds of Types and Values4.2 Primitive Types and Values4.3 Reference Types and Values4.4 Type Variables4.5...
The string literal "rawtypes" is used to initialize the annotation element value, and its value can be extracted from the annotation by means of the getValue predicate. We could then write this query to find all @SuppressWarnings annotations attached to constructors, and return both the ...
Concretely, if an annotation interface is annotated withDocumented, by default a tool like javadoc will display annotations of that interface in its output while annotations of annotation interfaces withoutDocumentedwill not be displayed. Added in 1.5. ...