The @ symbol in java [duplicate]

Question

What exactly does @Object.field do? I was reading some code that i fetched from a decompiler. It uses

@Object.name(field = "stuff",field = "stuff")
public static Object fieldName;

Answer 1

The @ symbol specifies the Annotation types. This represents some metadata associated to your code

The at sign character (@) indicates to the compiler that what follows is an annotation.