[Christophe TAVERNE]

Hi,

With 7.0 and 7.1 versions:

When I implement one interface into a class and when I use “Add unimplemented methods” option, I get “@override” annotations on methods added automatically.

I think it is a mistake.

regards,

Bal.

[Brian Fernandes]

Bal,

This is not a bug, the @Override annotations let the compiler know that these methods must override methods in the interface / super class. This allows eclipse to flag this as a warning or error in case you make a change to the method signature such that it no longer overrides a method in the interface or super class. You can read more about this annotation here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html

If you don’t want these annotations generated, go to Window > Preferences > Java > Code Style and uncheck the “Add ‘@Override’ annotation for new overriding methods” checkbox.

Hope this helps.

[Christophe TAVERNE]

You re perfectly right.

But I’m in a complex case. We have done several tests and I will explain…

My personal myeclipse come from one 6.6 update.
Co-workers have a fresh 7.1 install.

When they use “Add unimplemented methods” option, the “@override” annotation is automatically added to the methods.

On my configuration when I do the same, I get any annotation “@override” added. ???

But all of them, we have the “Add ‘@Override’ annotation for new overriding methods” checkbox selected into the myeclipse configuration

So when they automatically add “@override” annotation on class implements interface and they commit, I always get a myeclipse error when I update SVN.

The error message I get is: “The method test() of type ManageBean must override a superclass method ManageBean .java projectEJB/src/com/test/ejb/ManageBean line 857 Java Problem”

I hope I’m clear. It’s a little hard to explain.

But I’m think it’s an upgrade bug because I’m alone to have this problem.

regards,

[Brian Fernandes]

Bal,

On my configuration when I do the same, I get any annotation “@override” added. ???

Could you please clarify what you mean here? When you “add unimplemented methods” you do get the @Override annotation, correct?

The error message I get is: “The method test() of type ManageBean must override a superclass method ManageBean .java projectEJB/src/com/test/ejb/ManageBean line 857 Java Problem”

It is highly likely that this is reporting a real problem where your test() method does not override a method in the super class/interface when it should. If you feel that the test() method should not be overriding a super method, simply delete the @Override annotation.

As far as I know it is not possible to turn the error for @Override off, so if you and your colleagues have exactly the same code, I find it unlikely that you see the error but they don’t. Is this the case? Are they compiling their code with JDK 1.4?

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