Does removing annotation can cause runtime crash?

Question

Following library is causing conflicts in my Project, So i have to remove it.

compile 'org.glassfish:javax.annotation:10.0-b28'

If I remove this dependency then I have to remove these annotations from the project.

@Generated("org.jsonschema2pojo")

As of now, Its not making any impact at both run and compile time.

But I need confirmation on this. I googled this, but I still have some confusions.

• Does these annotations make any impact on code? I know they must, that's why we add them,but what impact.

• Will removing these can cause any minor or major impact at run time? As on compile time its not giving any warning or error message.

Answer 1

It depends on the type of annotation you use. In your case @Generated is just a marker annotation used to signify that the piece of code was auto-generated. Removing this will not have any impact on the behavior of your code.

Take the example of @Autowired annotation, this annotation is used to inject an object, removing it will definitely have implications.