Monthly Archives: May 2014

Repeating annotations in Java 8

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

In Java 7 and before attaching more than one annotation of the same type to the same part of the code (e.g. a class or a method) was forbidden. Therefore, the developers had to group them together into single container … Continue reading →

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Custom annotations in Java

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Java developers are not limited to using built-in annotations only but can also create their own annotations to provide additional functionality. For example many Java frameworks define custom annotations to provide (or at least simplify usage of) such functionality as: … Continue reading →

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