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.
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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.
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Retention | Indicates how long annotations with the annotated type are to be retained. |
Target | Indicates the contexts in which an annotation type is applicable. |
Annotation | The common interface extended by all annotation types. |
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. |
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). |
AnnotationFormatError | Thrown when the annotation parser attempts to read an annotation from a class file and determines that the annotation is malformed. |