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Blog Archive for forax during March 2007

@nnotation type or type @nnotation
The purpose of JSR 308 is to allow to define annotation on types. Currently, the JLS 3 only allows to annotate language elements than accept modifiers so it's not possible to annotate types. Why allowing this is a good idea ? There is real interest to allow annotation on Java types, it enables to write safer code by performing static source code analysis. Imagine...