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What's “@Override” there for in java?

I’ve never put “@Override” before a method until now. I see some code examples with it, but I don’t understand its utility. I’d love some explanation.

Many thanks,

JDelage

Answer 1

First, you can’t annotate a class with @Override. This annotation indicates that a method declaration is intended to override a method declaration in a superclass.

You don’t have to annotate overriding methods but if you use this annotation and your annotated method does not override a superclass method, then the compiler will generate an error message.