ECJ and OpenJDK b26

[Joseph D. Darcy]

In JDK 6, the behavior of @Override was expanded to include interface 
methods and not just superclass methods:

http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override

-Joe

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> I came across a problem compiling javax.management.AttributeValueExp
> from b26 with ECJ, due to the addition of the @Override annotation:
> 
> # Running javac:
> /usr/bin/ecj -1.5 -nowarn -sourcepath
> /home/andrew/projects/openjdk/icedtea/generated:../../../src/solaris/classes:../../../src/share/classes
> -bootclasspath /home/andrew/builder/icedtea/bootstrap/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/rt-closed.jar:/home/andrew/builder/icedtea/bootstrap/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/tools.jar::/home/andrew/builder/icedtea/openjdk-ecj/build/linux-amd64/classes
> -d /home/andrew/builder/icedtea/openjdk-ecj/build/linux-amd64/classes
> @/home/andrew/builder/icedtea/openjdk-ecj/build/linux-amd64/tmp/sun/javax.management/.classes.list
> ----------
> 1. ERROR in ../../../src/share/classes/javax/management/AttributeValueExp.java
> (at line 117)
>         public ValueExp apply(ObjectName name) throws
> BadStringOperationException, BadBinaryOpValueExpException,
>         BadAttributeValueExpException, InvalidApplicationException {
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The method apply(ObjectName) of type AttributeValueExp must override a
> superclass method
> ----------
> 2. ERROR in ../../../src/share/classes/javax/management/AttributeValueExp.java
> (at line 154)
>         public void setMBeanServer(MBeanServer s)  {
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The method setMBeanServer(MBeanServer) of type AttributeValueExp must
> override a superclass method
> 
> ecj seems to be applying @Override only to superclasses and not to
> interfaces (these methods are specified in the interface
> javax.management.ValueExp).
> 
> Is this a bug in ECJ (3.3.0) or is javac overlooking this and
> @Override should only be used with superclasses?