Java annotations are a very powerful feature in the Java language, but most often, we are the users of standard annotations (such as @Override) or common framework annotations (such as @Autowired), ...

Subramaniam said that Java has few Annotations built in such as deprecate, Override, Suppress Warnings and recommended the usage of Override Annotation while using Java.

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It's not necessarily semantically correct. @Nullable, for example, might apply to the method being overridden, but not necessarily to the implementation of the override. It doesn't necessarily compile ...