@Generated Annotation, how we use it ?

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Hi All,

I recently read an article speaking about the Java annotations, and on this latter comes the @Generated annotation. They say that it is used for automatically generated code.

Could someone explain me that in further with a little example ?

Thank You.

Posted 7-May-12 3:07am

Schehaider_Aymen

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2012-05-07T03:58:00

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As per documentation, The Generated annoation is used to mark source code that has been generated. It can also be used to differentiate user written code from generated code in a single file.

Details here: Annotation Type Generated[^]

Posted 7-May-12 3:58am

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Schehaider_Aymen 7-May-12 10:03am

Code has been generated automatically via the framework or based on an external user class ?

public class MyClass{
 
    public void developerCode(){
    }
 
    @Generated(
        value = "ClassNameThatGeneratedThisCode", 
        comments = "This is Tool Generated Code", 
        date = "5 June 2007"
    )
    public void toolGeneratedCode(){
    }
 
}

What this code really do/generate ?