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In [[programming]] a '''Java annotation''' is a way of adding [[metadata]] to Java [[source code]] that is available to the programmer at [[run-time]].

Java annotations can be added to program elements such as classes, methods, fields, parameters, local variables, and packages. Unlike tags added to Java documentation and processed with tools such as [[XDoclet]], Java annotations are compleatly acessibleaccessible to the programmer while the software is running using [[reflection (programming)|reflection]].

==History of Java annotation==