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Annotation 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:
See Java Language Specification:
8.4.8 Inheritance, Overriding, and Hiding- The method does override or implement a method declared in a supertype.
- The method has a signature that is override-equivalent to that of any public method declared in Object.
9.4.1 Inheritance and Overriding
9.6.4.4 @Override
Since: 1.5
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