Re: What is a Java Annotation?


"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mike Schilling wrote:

Presumably if Java were being designed from scratch today Javadoc would
be
SOURCE.

Quite possibly. An even more interesting possibility (IMO) would be to
give it
CLASS status.

Classfile format is a high-level programming language anyway, so why not
ship
the API documentation along with the "code" ?

In some cases, security via obfuscation.


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