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Why doesn't Eclipse add @Override annotations in "Generate Delegate Methods" refactoring?

In Eclipse, if I try to apply a "Generate Delegate Methods" refactoring to a Java class like the following:

class Foo implements Bar {
   Bar bar;
}

Eclipse doesn't generate @Override annotations for the generated methods. Is this a bug or is there a good reason for this?

Solution

  • No good reason, but not a "bug", per se; just a shortcoming. Probably the refactoring is just older than @Override -- older than annotations in general, of course -- and has never been updated.