Chapter 13Annotations

There are some topics you need to know to pass the exam, some that are important in your daily development experience, and some that are important for both. Annotations definitely fall into this last category. Annotations were added to the Java language to make a developer's life a lot easier.

Prior to annotations, adding extra information about a class or method was often cumbersome and required a lot of extra classes and configuration files. Annotations solved this by having ...

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