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On 05/01/2014 10:44 AM, Joerg Meier wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2014 05:31:15 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:
>
>> These are not quite as built-in as I thought.  You have to install
>> them with a rather grim process.
>
>> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/annotations.html#CHECKER
>> for links to the bits you will need to try them out.


The Checker Framework project may be found here:
<http://types.cs.washington.edu/checker-framework/>.


> I'm confused as to what this has to do with Java 1.8. As far as I can tell,
> that's a third party library completely unrelated to Oracle or Java 1.8.

The Checker Framework is a Java annotation processor capable of
processing the new to Java 1.8 type annotations.

It is not "new stuff 'in' Java 1.8".