Description Johannes Rieken 2007-01-22 08:02:17 EST

The meta-annotation java.lang.annotation.Documented indicates that the target-annotation should be documented by tools like javadoc and similar. The hover in the Java-Editor does not include such annotations when the doc is created from source.

Steps:

@Documented
@interface Foo {
  String value();
}

class CU {

  /**
   * Some random javadoc...
   */
  @Foo("bar")
  void m(){

  }
}

Hovering over 'm()' shows 
+----------------------+
 | void CU.m()                      |
 | Some random javadoc...   |
+----------------------+

and not

+----------------------+
 | @Foo( value = "bar" )        |
 | void CU.m()                      |
 | Some random javadoc...   |
+----------------------+