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Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 7

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java.lang
Annotation Type Override


@Target(value=METHOD)
@Retention(value=SOURCE)
public @interface Override

Indicates that a method declaration is intended to override a method declaration in a supertype. If a method is annotated with this annotation type compilers are required to generate an error message unless at least one of the following conditions hold:

Since:
1.5
See The Java Language Specification, Third Edition:
9.6.1.4 Override


Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 7

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