Java Annotations Tutorial with Custom Annotation Example and Parsing using Reflection

Java Annotations provide information about the code and they have no direct effect on the code they annotate. In this tutorial, we will learn about Java annotations, how to write custom annotation, annotations usage and how to parse annotations using reflection. Annotations are introduced in Java 1.5 and now it’s heavily used in Java frameworks like Hibernate, Jersey , Spring. Annotation is metadata about the program embedded in the program itself. It can be parsed by the annotation parsing tool or by compiler.

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