Package javax.annotation

Annotation Type Generated

  • @Documented
@Target({ANNOTATION_TYPE,CONSTRUCTOR,FIELD,LOCAL_VARIABLE,METHOD,PACKAGE,PARAMETER,TYPE})
@Retention(SOURCE)
public @interface Generated
    gRPC generated code uses the @Generated annotation which is no longer part of core JDK The JavaEE version is CDDL licensed, which would introduce a CDDL dependency This version of the @Generated annotation is copied from the Tomcat Jakarta implementation, which is an Apache-2.0 licensed implementation. https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/main/java/jakarta/annotation/Generated.java Discussion on gRPC issue is here: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues/6833 The @Generated annotation is also used by Google cloud platform libraries

    • Required Element Summary

      Required Elements 
      Modifier and Type Required Element Description
      java.lang.String[] value  

    • Optional Element Summary

      Optional Elements 
      Modifier and Type Optional Element Description
      java.lang.String comments  
      java.lang.String date  

    • Element Detail

      • value

        java.lang.String[] value
        Returns:
        The name of the code generator. It is recommended that the fully qualified name of the code generator is used.

      • date

        java.lang.String date
        Returns:
        The date the code was generated
        Default:
        ""

      • comments

        java.lang.String comments
        Returns:
        Additional comments (if any) related to the code generation
        Default:
        ""