I saw a Java article that said it’s better to use string constant in annotations (you can see the article here). Why is that a good practice?
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I saw a Java article that said it’s better to use string constant in annotations (you can see the article here). Why is that a good practice?
The most obvious use would be that finding all references to the constant is easier than finding all occurrences of the string. Your IDE will immediately help you with the former, but the latter you need to do yourself.
Then, there’s also the issue of maintainability in case you need to change the value (consistently, everywhere).