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What are Annotations ? Why do wee need them ?

 
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i stumbled upon annotations while trying to integrate GWT with Struts 2. i was looking for a GWT/Struts 2 plugin. with a great difficulty finally i found the plugin at the following URL

URL :

If you look at the webpage, the author of the plugin says

This plugin allow you to write Ext.Direct Action using annotation:
@ExtDirectAction
@ExtDirectMethod



i have never used annotation so i dont know what are they for and what it means here to use the above mentioned annotations. Please tell me in detail.

thanks in advance

 
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annotations are like metadata for the functions and variables.
I will suggest you to read some small book or documentation about it
 
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To Know more about the annotations check out this link:webpage
 
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Ravikumar Choudhary wrote:To Know more about the annotations check out this link:webpage

Also find the most recent edition of Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel. Don't look in the 3rd edition or earlier.
 
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probably this and this link help you
 
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A good example of a common annotation would be the "@Override" annotation. You can add this annotation to methods that you've overridden. The compiler will throw an error if the method actually doesn't override anything. This is great because if you accidentally misspell the name of a method you want to override, it will point it out for you.



Annotations were added in Java 1.5.
 
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yes i have generally seen in the IDE's that attach a marked warning, the warning can be replaced by putting an annotation. I would certainly go through the linked resources provided in this section and i hope it resolves my problem.
 
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Be careful about replacing warnings by annotations; the @SuppressWarnings annotation might allow you to bypass the type checking in generics and suffer a ClassCastException later on. Adding the @Override annotation to all overridden methods is a good idea.
 
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