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Asked: 2026-06-09T18:19:15+00:00

Does anybody have some kind of code style annotations in the project, ex: @OverEngineered

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Does anybody have some kind of “code style” annotations in the project, ex: @OverEngineered for over-complexed code or @Duplicated… etc.

Ideally I’d subclass @Deprecated for that (@OverEngineered extends @Deprecated) to get the IDE highlight it, but java annotations are not inherited.

So I wonder if there is some workaround to get the IDE to highlight such code-style custom annotations as deprecated? Or is this the wrong way or wrong task in general?

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    You could write a family of these annotations, and then use them alongside @Deprecated. The latter gets you the warnings, the former supply the details to human readers. You could write a Checkstyle rule to require that every deprecated thing has an explanatory annotation, and/or that every explanation accompanies a deprecation.

    Rather than writing several annotations, though, i’d write one, which takes an explanatory label as a parameter. I’d call it @BecauseItIs. So:

    @Deprecated @BecauseItIs("overengineered")
public void calculateSumOfTwoIntegersUsingSurfaceIntegrals(int a, int b) {
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