Annotations in Java are processed at compile time or runtime, depending on their retention policy. The retention policy is specified by the @Retention annotation, and it can be one of three values: ...

Simple Builders is a Java annotation processor designed to generate type-safe and high-performance builders for Java classes. It generates builder code at compile-time, ensuring type safety without ...

Learn how to use Java annotations to associate metadata with classes, methods, and other application elements in your Java programs. There are times when you need to associate metadata, or data that ...

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In part 1 of this series, we introduced the @Option annotation and described some use cases; in part 2, we learnt how to use the new annotation features in JavaSE 5 (a.k.a. Tiger) to write @Option the ...