Make agents, not frameworks

Ever since their introduction, Java annotations have become an integral part of the APIs of larger application frameworks. Good examples…

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How To Process Java Annotations

One of the cool new features of Java 8 is the support for lambda expressions. Lambda expressions lean heavily on…

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Java Annotations Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide (PDF Download)

EDITORIAL NOTE: In this post, we feature a comprehensive Java Annotations Tutorial. Annotations in Java are a major feature and…

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Processing Java Annotations Using Reflection

In my previous article covering Java Annotations, I outlined a recent use case and provided you with some examples of custom…

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Creating Your Own Java Annotations

If you’ve been programming in Java and using any one of the popular frameworks like Spring and Hibernate, you should be very…

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Use Java annotation deprecated the right way

There is hardly anything more infuriating that seeing a method @Deprecated without a proper documentation. I feel lost. Should I…

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Java Annotations Tutorial with Custom Annotation

Java Annotations provide information about the code and they have no direct effect on the code they annotate. In this…

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Java Annotations – Retention

Consider a Java annotation: public @interface AnAnnotaton { } A class with this annotation applied on it: @AnAnnotaton class AnAnnotatedClass{…

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Java Annotations: Explored & Explained

One of the many wonderful features of Java 5 SE is the introduction of the Annotations construct. Annotations are tags…

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