I’m a .NET developer learning Java EE. These two concepts seem to serve the same exact purposes in either system.
So which framework gets credit for inventing them?
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I’m a .NET developer learning Java EE. These two concepts seem to serve the same exact purposes in either system.
So which framework gets credit for inventing them?
.NET metadata was, I believe, introduced in .NET 1.1 which was released 3 April 2003 (it appears to be already in before that?). The Java annotations were proposed as JSR-175 on 19 March 2002 which was approved on 30 September 2004 and became part of Java SE 5.0 which was released the same day.
It’s unclear when exactly .NET metadata was proposed, but when it comes to the first release, .NET wins.