Did I dream this? I could have swore I read something about java 7 supplying an annotation that you could place on a method to ensure all subclasses call super. Has this been renamed, or dropped, or was it never actually considered?
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Did I dream this? I could have swore I read something about java 7 supplying an annotation that you could place on a method to ensure all subclasses call super. Has this been renamed, or dropped, or was it never actually considered?
It was part of JSR 305: Annotations for Software Defect Detection and called
@OverridingMethodsMustInvokeSuper.The JSR is inactive, but a reference implementation is available bundled with FindBugs