Annotation Declaration

• Special kind of modifier

• • Can be applied to any declaration
  • By convention, precede other modifiers

• Annotation type, element-value pairs

• • Values must be compile-time constants

• @RequestForEnhancement(

• id = 123,

• synopsis = "Enable local support",

• engineer = â€?Eddy",

• date = "4/1/2006"

• )

• public static void printInHeader(Date creationDate) {

• ... }