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| Ans. Suppose that a software group traditionally starts the body of every class with comments providing important information: public class Generation3List extends Generation2List { // Author: John Doe // Date: 3/17/2002 // Current revision: 6 // Last modified: 4/12/2004 // By: Jane Doe // Reviewers: Alice, Bill, Cindy // class code goes here } To add this same metadata with an annotation, you must first define the annotation type. The syntax for doing this is: @interface ClassPreamble { String author(); String date(); int currentRevision() default 1; String lastModified() default "N/A"; String lastModifiedBy() default "N/A"; // Note use of array String[] reviewers(); } The annotation type definition looks similar to an interface definition where the keyword interface is preceded by the at sign (@) (@ = AT, as in annotation type). Annotation types are a form of interface, which will be covered in a later lesson. For the moment, you do not need to understand interfaces. The body of the previous annotation definition contains annotation type element declarations, which look a lot like methods. Note that they can define optional default values. After the annotation type is defined, you can use annotations of that type, with the values filled in, like this: @ClassPreamble ( author = "John Doe", date = "3/17/2002", currentRevision = 6, lastModified = "4/12/2004", lastModifiedBy = "Jane Doe", // Note array notation reviewers = {"Alice", "Bob", "Cindy"} ) public class Generation3List extends Generation2List { // class code goes here } | ||||
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