Description Markus Keller 2009-09-04 07:08:07 EDT

From news://news.eclipse.org:119/h7enfl$56m$2@build.eclipse.org :

> When source code has to be ported back to 1.5 from 1.6 (e.g. to be compatible 
> with OSx) then there is a lot of work in removing the @override annotations 
> for implemented interface methods. It would really help if there was a 
> preference setting to ignore those overrides.

We can't remove the errors in 1.5, since they are mandated by the Java Language Specification. But we could add a Clean Up on the "Unnecessary Code" page e.g. "Remove unsupported @Override".

I'm hesitant to just remove all @Override annotations that cause a compile error in batch, because some of these could be real errors. But we can offer to remove those that are supported in 1.6 but cause an error in 1.5, e.g.:

interface MyRunnable extends Runnable {
    @Override
    public void run();
}