Importance of @override annotation

[Abiodun Adisa]

Please can someone explain to me the importance of @override annotation because i can't really see its importance if we have a Class that contains a method that overrides another method in the super class, why the need for the @override annotation

[Henry Wong]

It's great for catching spelling errors. For example, if you tried to override the hashCode() method, and accidently type hashcode() instead, the compiler will complain.

Henry

[Campbell Ritchie]

Henry Wong wrote:
It's great for catching spelling errors.

And it's got a spelling error in It's @Override, not @override! Remember Java is case-sensitive, and the tiniest spelling error can cause no end of problems.