Description Jon Nall 2005-02-09 11:22:21 EST

The JLS3 states on page 272:

A consequence of the fact that an annotation type cannot explicitly declare a
superclass or superinterface is that a subclass or subinterface of an annotation
type is never itself an annotation type. Similarly, annotation.Annotation is not
itself an annotation type.

Attached is a file containing examples of an interface extending an annotation
type and a class implementing an annotation type. javac compiles this file
without error.

I'm using eclipse:
Version: 3.1.0
Build id: I20050202-0800