Annotation Type Declaration

Question

Why in anno type declaration some types look like methods ?
Example:
public @interface MyAnnotation {
   String doSomething();                   //HERE
   int count; String date();                 // int is fine but , String , why its a method ?
Usage:
@MyAnnotation (doSomething="What to do", count=1,
               date="09-09-2005")
public void mymethod() {
}

Answer 1

ya ..
it says
"The annotation type definition looks somewhat like an interface definition where the keyword interface is preceded by the @ character (@ = "AT" as in Annotation Type). Annotation types are, in fact, a form of interface, which will be covered in a later lesson. For the moment, you do not need to understand interfaces.
+The body of the annotation definition above contains annotation type element declarations, which look a lot like methods. Note that they may define optional default values.+ "
But does not explain why they are metods , observe in the above example that ,
primitive int is directly declared , not as a method ,
Then all should be methods ..