Quoting, Sun’s Official Java Tutorial
Class names, ‘HelloWorldApp’, are only
accepted if annotation processing is
explicitly requested
What does it mean? And how to apply it?
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"Annotation Processing" is a hook into the compile process of the java compiler, to analyse the source code for user defined annotations and handle then (by producing compiler errors, compiler warning, emitting source code, byte code …).
API reference: javax.annotation.processing (Java Platform SE 6).