JDK5 introduced the APT (Annotation Processing Tool).
It was part of the SDK but the classes were part of the unofficial com.sun.* namespace, and you had to use the apt tool to process the source code.
JDK6 cleaned up the API and integrated this stuff it...
4 replies - 10824 views - 02/07/11 by Carl-petter Bertell in News
How many developers think they're good programmers? We're not. We're all fairly bad at what we do. We can't remember all the methods our code needs to call, so we use autocompleting IDEs to remind us. And the languages we've spent years, in some cases...
31 replies - 54925 views - 09/29/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Coverity, Inc today unveiled
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0 replies - 784 views - 11/11/09 by Tracy Roberts in Announcements
After much thought, we have decided that selling Java development tools is not a viable business model for us. Several recent events have helped us reach this conclusion:
1 replies - 17841 views - 05/30/08 by Mark Dixon in Articles
