Are annotations necessary in Java?

Annotations are used to provide supplemental information about a program . Annotations start with ‘@’. Annotations do not change the action of a compiled program. Annotations help to associate metadata (information) to the program elements i.e. instance variables, constructors, methods, classes, etc.

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What are attributes C#?

In C#, attributes are classes that inherit from the Attribute base class . Any class that inherits from Attribute can be used as a sort of “tag” on other pieces of code. For instance, there is an attribute called ObsoleteAttribute . This is used to signal that code is obsolete and shouldn’t be used anymore.

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