Provides library support for the Java programming language
annotation facility.
Annotations
Documented |
Indicates that annotations with a type are to be documented by javadoc
and similar tools by default. |
Inherited |
Indicates that an annotation type is automatically inherited. |
Native |
Indicates that a field defining a constant value may be referenced
from native code. |
Repeatable |
The annotation type java.lang.annotation.Repeatable is
used to indicate that the annotation type whose declaration it
(meta-)annotates is repeatable. |
Retention |
Indicates how long annotations with the annotated type are to
be retained. |
Target |
Indicates the contexts in which an annotation type is applicable. |
Interfaces
Annotation |
The common interface extended by all annotation types. |
Enums
ElementType |
The constants of this enumerated type provide a simple classification of the
syntactic locations where annotations may appear in a Java program. |
RetentionPolicy |
Annotation retention policy. |
Exceptions
AnnotationTypeMismatchException |
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). |
IncompleteAnnotationException |
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). |
Errors
AnnotationFormatError |
Thrown when the annotation parser attempts to read an annotation
from a class file and determines that the annotation is malformed. |