Over at SoftwareReality.com we’re running an article about one of the lamer features introduced in Java 5: annotations. Java 5 brought with it a host of exciting new features: generics, enums, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Just how hard is it to perform a JPA or Hibernate enum mapping with either annotations or a ...

Although we have kept Java 6 compatibility for annotations for the longest time, this is becoming a problem: we cannot test (via CI) versions beyond JDK 11. Realistically usage from pre-Java 8 is ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

as can be seen from the discussion, it would be valuable to 'standardize' on this project's annotation classes by including the @interface types (at least) in the sdk namespace (i.e.) ...