Java Annotation Processor

External

• https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=269
• https://www.baeldung.com/java-annotation-processing-builder

Internal

• Java Annotations

Overview

The Pluggable Annotation Processing API is specified by JSR 269 and can be used to develop custom annotation processors. Annotation processing is actively used in many Java libraries, for instance to generate metaclasses in JPA or to augment classes with boilerplate code in Lombok library.