What is meant by annotation in Java?

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Tags

1. #syntactic
2. #packages
3. #source
4. #classes
5. #metadata
6. #annotation
7. #annotated
8. #added
9. #parameters
10. #variables
11. #computer
12. #programming
13. #methods
14. #language