In Groovy++ I often hear of the term Annotations. Can anyone explain me what is that in simple terms?
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In Groovy++ I often hear of the term Annotations. Can anyone explain me what is that in simple terms?
In short It’s a way to label a piece of code. But it’s not Groovy specific thing.
These labels can be used as meta-data by other applications to perform tasks like identifying unit test, dependency injection, or just a way to tell someone that a method is deprecated.
Here is a link to some java documentation.