Yes and no

@Override for methods implemented in a super class 1.5
@Override for interface/abstract methods 1.6

Tom

Francis Galiegue schrieb:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Francis Galiegue skrev:
>>> There's a lot of @Override annotation keywords in the existing Java
>>> source, and the generator generates @Override annotations in the Java
>>> source code.
>>>
>>> But the target attribute of <javac> tasks were always 1.5...
>>>
>>> Which platforms running Qt Jambi still use 1.5? Why isn't 1.6 required
>>> all the way?
>>>
>>>
>> I don't see any reason of scrapping compatibility with Java 1.5 at this
>> point. It's a convenience for people to be able to deploy to platforms which
>> do not necessarily have support for features introduced in new versions of
>> Java. When we initially introduced the dependency on Java 1.5, it was not a
>> decision taken lightly, but Java 1.5 was a quantum leap in terms of version
>> updates, and has so many handy features (generics, varargs, enums,
>> annotations to name a few) that we felt they outweighed any inconvenience
>> caused by the fact that we standardized on 1.5 at a time when 1.4 was the
>> most widely used version of Java. As far as I know, the same cannot be said
>> for Java 1.6.
>>
>> So the question is: Why would you want to introduce a new dependency? And
>> how does it relate to the Override-annotations?
>>
> 
> Well, I though at first that @Override appeared in 1.6, but having
> searched a little more thoroughly, it appears that I am mistaken: it
> appeared in 1.5.
> 
> Forget my question...
> 

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