Annotations in Java are processed at compile time or runtime, depending on their retention policy. The retention policy is specified by the @Retention annotation, and it can be one of three values: ...

NetBeans uses its projects’ settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac‘s use of the -source and -target. In this post, I look at some of the numerous benefits ...

While writing tests for #35342, I noticed that we have a discrepancy in our "method override" detection in MergedAnnotations and AnnotatedMethod. Specifically, the MergedAnnotations infrastructure ...