How to create basic custom annotation?

• Annotations are created by using @ sign, folled by the keyword interface, and followed by annotation name as shown in the below example.
• Members can be decleared as shown in the example, it looks like methods. The example defines two members called name and desc. We should not provide implementation for these members.
• All annotations extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation interface. Annotations cannot include any extends caluse.
• Below example shows how to use this annotation to method.

Example :

package com.java2novice.annotations;

 

public @interface MySampleAnn {

 

    String name();

    String desc();

}

 

class MyAnnTest{

     

    @MySampleAnn(name = "test1", desc = "testing annotations")

    public void myTestMethod(){

        //method implementation

    }

}