The Annotations Thread
I never cared about Annotations when they came out.
They seemed like they created a lot of work without a corresponding
payoff (see @overrides annotation).
I just read a 4 part Oracle tutorial on them and using runtime
annotations (which i didnt think you could do) and now it seems like
people might be able to use them for creative things. Anyone have
any examples?
When I did a forum search on Annotations, 6 of the first 10 posts
had 0 replies - and most were from years ago. So im not too hopeful!
But yea, ive never seen anyone talk about them in this forum?
Ive never seen a single question. Its kinda weird.
I use them in my JUnit 4 tests.
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Hibernate is much nicer with them.
If you've invested heavily in XDoclet you see some benefit there as well.
tsitha at 2007-7-29 17:58:49 >
Annotations play a significant role in the Swing framework that's slated for inclusion in JDK 7.
https://appframework.dev.java.net/
Here's another interesting use of annotations:
http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue097.html
>> Here's another interesting use of annotations:
UA, thanks a lot for that article.
First, that java ternary bug is interesting. I wonder how many people
that left losing their mind, lol. We're totally at the mercy of the compiler!
I had to read that article a couple times to understand it.
I really wasnt getting it. Is this what he was doing: He annotated fields
so he could put their values in an XML form that would load them
at runtime? Thats great! That really puts the 'fun' in 'functional'. ; )
I can see how that type of thing could really supercharge Swing.
EDIT: I have to add that ive seen people use XML to describe Swing layouts
and component values before but without the Annotation framework
it was CHAOTIC to read and edit.
> Annotations play a significant role in the Swing framework
> https://appframework.dev.java.net/
you know i read that great 57 page pdf presentation:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hansmuller/archive/ts-3399-final.pdf
hoping to see the demo on page 54. and no demo, lol, and no example code.
that was a great presentation though. i was nodding my head
yelling "amen brother" through most of it.
page 8 was funny as hell!
The whole thing just seems like a mark-up language for
describing guis though. Its seems like its something a good ide should
be doing for you anyway. Its inbetween that and writing the code yourself
it seems. Looking forward to it regardless.
Waddya mean there are no annotations threads?
Isn't there a whole subforum on annotations?
...or I'm not getting something here?
huh. youre right. there is. its only had 117 threads in
several years, lol! thats so sad.
maybe because the standard annotations don't require much discussion and hardly anyone (except the guys at JBoss working on Hibernate) bothers to actually write their own?
> maybe because the standard annotations don't require
> much discussion and hardly anyone (except the guys at
> JBoss working on Hibernate) bothers to actually write
> their own?
That was sort of the point of the thread though, to see how people
are using annotations. I never saw a use for them in my programming
but as evidenced by UA's links, people are doing really interesting
things with them.
> maybe because the standard annotations don't require
> much discussion and hardly anyone (except the guys at
> JBoss working on Hibernate) bothers to actually write
> their own?
I do. For example I use them on a Java bean to specify column headings and widths when it's displayed as a JTable row, or coresponding database fields when loading it from a datbase query.
Now arguably this moves away from the standard wizdom re: decoupling, but it certainly streamlines development.
Annotations are very easy to define and to use at run time.
We use annotations with aspectwerkz. They use annotations for aop. This way we can weave security and other stuff into our methods at runtime.
see http://aspectwerkz.codehaus.org/annotations.html for how they use annotations.
Lima
what do annotations do? could they maybe automatically start up a database on runtime? that would be wicked
I don't generally like annotations because much of the time you are simply moving configuration into your code, and if you ask me that is not a good thing to do. Some annotations are useful though.
YoGeea at 2007-7-29 17:58:49 >
