Interface Summary
The common interface extended by all annotation types.
Enum Summary
The constants of this enumerated type provide a simple classification of the syntactic locations where annotations may appear in a Java program.
Annotation retention policy.
Exception Summary
Thrown to indicate that a program has attempted to access an element of an annotation whose type has changed after the annotation was compiled (or serialized).
Thrown to indicate that a program has attempted to access an element of an annotation type that was added to the annotation type definition after the annotation was compiled (or serialized).
Error Summary
Thrown when the annotation parser attempts to read an annotation from a class file and determines that the annotation is malformed.
Annotation Types Summary
Annotation Type
Description
Indicates that annotations with a type are to be documented by javadoc and similar tools by default.
Indicates that an annotation type is automatically inherited.
Indicates that a field defining a constant value may be referenced from native code.
The annotation type
java.lang.annotation.Repeatable is used to indicate that the annotation type whose declaration it (meta-)annotates is
repeatable.
Indicates how long annotations with the annotated type are to be retained.
Indicates the contexts in which an annotation type is applicable.
Package java.lang.annotation Description
Provides library support for the Java programming language annotation facility.
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Since:
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1.5