Description Olivier Thomann 2004-11-29 10:46:26 EST

A field declaration is allowed inside an annotation type declaration iff it is a
constant field declaration (i.e. it has an initializer with a constant value).

@interface I {
     int[] tab;
}

error: needs an initializer:

@interface I {
     int[] tab = {1, 2};
}
compiles fine.