Interesting. I didn't know that the semantics of @Override changed between 1.5 and 1.6. Thanks for the explanation!
Andreas On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 13:25, Glen Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andreas: > > Andreas Veithen wrote: >> What do you mean by JDK 1.5 can't compile @Override annotations??? > > In JDK 1.5, @Override is supported only for superclass methods, and using it > on an interface method produces a compiler error. :( This sucks, but until > we move off 1.5 that's what we seem stuck with. > > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5008260 > > --Glen >
