I was once curious why the JSR-305 @Nullable wasn't being used and located this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/jclouds-dev/tQc4QtOU_BI/0UGUYTgNjX0J
Jasdeep On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jeremy Daggett < [email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone explain the background/history of this annotation? Other than > marking a parameter or return value to indicate that something can be null, > is there any code that does something special with it at compile time? > > If you know the history here, can you please respond, and also add it to > the Annotations [1] page? Thanks! > > /jd > > [1] https://wiki.apache.org/jclouds/Annotations >
