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by justin cater.
Original Post: Java Annotations Are a Big Mistake
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Annotations were introduced in Java 5, and we all got excited. Such a great instrument to make code shorter! No more Hibernate/Spring XML configuration files! Just annotations, right there in the code where we need them. No more marker interfaces, just a runtime-retained reflection-discoverable annotation! I was excited too. Moreover, I’ve made a few open ...