Order of annotation declarations

Joel Borggren-Franck joel.franck at oracle.com
Mon Jul 22 12:55:29 UTC 2013


Hi,

On 2013-07-19, Kasper Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't been able to find any info on this.
> but is [Class|AnnotatedMember].getAnnotations() required to return the
> annotations is order of declaration?
> 
> For example, if I have the following definition
> @First
> @Second
> public class Foo{}
> Will Foo.class.getAnnotations() always return
> [First, Second] or is it allowed to return them in any order like
> getMethods()?
> 

I don't think it is strictly required, but we usually try to keep them
in their natural order.

cheers
/Joel



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