Annotations "not applicable to type"

Question

I am quite new to IntelliJ being a Eclipse user for many years, so I really find this error where all annotations expect for the @Override are showing error "not applicable to type"

E.g the @PostConstruct annotation from JBoss Errai is showing this errors all around, where the import is there with no error at all.

How do I fix this?

Update:

E.g

@PostConstruct // When hovered with the mouse pointer '@PostContruct' is not applicable to method
public void init() {
}

Screenshot: http://snag.gy/q5cW5.jpg

Answer 1

Looking at the definition, one sees @Target mentioning method. So you might have imported a totally different PostConstruct annotation. Inspect the imports / go to the definition in IntelliJ.

package javax.annotation;

@Documented
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=METHOD)
public @interface PostConstruct