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What is annotations? In simple terms?

In Groovy++ I often hear of the term Annotations. Can anyone explain me what is that in simple terms?

Solution

  • In short It's a way to label a piece of code. But it's not Groovy specific thing.

    These labels can be used as meta-data by other applications to perform tasks like identifying unit test, dependency injection, or just a way to tell someone that a method is deprecated.

    Here is a link to some java documentation.