© Kishori Sharan 2018
Kishori SharanJava Language Featureshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3348-1_1

1. Annotations

Kishori Sharan1 
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Montgomery, Alabama, USA
 
In this chapter, you will learn:

  • What annotations are

  • How to declare annotations

  • How to use annotations

  • What meta-annotations are and how to use them

  • Commonly used annotations that are used to deprecate APIs, to suppress named compile-time warnings, override methods, and declare functional interfaces

  • How to access annotations at runtime

  • How to process annotations in source code

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