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Line 12: ==History== The Java platform has always had various ad hoc annotation mechanisms - for example, the ''transient'' modifier, or the ''@deprecated'' javadoc tag. The general purpose annotation (also known as ''metadata'') facility was introduced to the [[Java Community Process]] as JSR-175 in 2002 and approved in September 2004. This type of annotation became available with the [[JDK]] version 1.5. A provisional interface for compile-time annotation processing was provided by the apt tool in JDK version 1.5, and was formalized through JSR-269 and integrated into the [[javac]] compiler in version 1.6. ==Processing==

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