Java Annotations

Java language annotations, introduced in Java 1.5.

JSR 175: A Metadata Facility for the JavaTM Programming Language http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=175

Java 1.5 lets you add metadata to your source files, to drive the compilation process, and/or be used at runtime to modify the operation of your programs.

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Also, in Java 1.6 the Pluggable Annotation Processing API (JSR 269) was introduced, which allows you to process annotation at compile time. This is specially useful for source code generators.


Tools that enable you to do Java annotations (JSR 175) in a Java 1.4 environment:

Make javadoc comments available at run time: Articles:


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