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Between Java 5 and Java 6 changes to the specification of @Override have been made. In Java 6 it is possible to add the @Override annotation to methods that implement methods of an interface which is not allowed in Java 5.
I noticed the difference when a friend told me that he had to remove all the @Override annotations to make his Java 6 project compile with Java 5.
The interesting thing is that there is no documentation about this change. The API specification of @Override is exactly the same in both Java versions. I found out that this was forgotten by Sun developers. Peter Ahé, a former developer at Sun, calls it the @Override Snafu.
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3 Responses to @Override specification changes in Java 6
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March 24th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
[...] an object of the declared generic type. Here’s our PersonRowMapper implementation (Note that @Override is supported on interface implementation methods only on Java 6, so remove that annotation if you’re on Java 5): class PersonRowMapper implements [...]
lukas
June 19th, 2009 at 9:00 am
thanks for this comment! save me time while reverting from java 6 to java 5.
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March 5th, 2010 at 5:29 am
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