Package java.lang.annotation

Provides library support for the Java programming language annotation facility.

Since:
1.5
Interface Summary
Interface Description
Annotation

The common interface extended by all annotation types.

Enum Summary
Enum Description
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.

Exception Summary
Exception Description
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).

Error Summary
Error Description
AnnotationFormatError

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
Documented

If the annotation @Documented is present on the declaration of an annotation type A, then any @A annotation on an element is considered part of the element's public contract.

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.