Standard Annotations
JDK 5.0 defines seven annotation interfaces. Three of them are regular annotations that you can use to annotate items in your source code. The other four are meta-annotations that describe the behavior of annotation interfaces. Table 13-1 shows these annotations. We discuss them in detail in the following two sections.
| Annotation Interface | Applicable To | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Deprecated | All | Marks item as deprecated |
| SuppressWarnings | All but packages and annotations | Suppresses warnings of the given type |
| Override | Methods | Checks that this method overrides a superclass method |
| Target | Annotations | Specifies the items to which this annotation can be applied |
| Retention | Annotations | Specifies how long this annotation is retained |
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