It seems that the wisdom here is changing. Today I installed IntelliJ IDEA 9 and noticed that its "missing @Override inspection" now catches not just implemented abstract methods, but implemented interface methods as well. In my employer's code base and in my own projects, I've long had the habit to only use @Override for the former -- implemented abstract methods. However, rethinking the habit, the merit of using the annotations in both cases becomes clear. Despite being more verbose, it does protect against the fragile base class problem (not as grave as C++-related examples) where the interface method name changes, orphaning the would-be implementing method in a derived class.

当然，这种情况多半是夸张的;派生类将不再编译，现在缺少重命名接口方法的实现，今天可能会使用重命名方法重构操作来处理整个代码库。

鉴于IDEA的检查无法配置为忽略已实现的接口方法，今天我将改变我的习惯和我的团队的代码审查标准。

如果您发现自己经常重写(非抽象)方法，您可能需要检查一下您的设计。当编译器无法捕捉错误时，它非常有用。例如，尝试在ThreadLocal中覆盖initValue()，这是我已经做过的。

在实现接口方法(1.6+特性)时使用@Override对我来说似乎有点过度。如果你有大量的方法，有些重写了，有些没有，这可能又是糟糕的设计(如果你不知道，你的编辑器可能会显示哪个是哪个)。

@Override在接口上实际上是有帮助的，因为如果你改变了接口，你会得到警告。

It seems that the wisdom here is changing. Today I installed IntelliJ IDEA 9 and noticed that its "missing @Override inspection" now catches not just implemented abstract methods, but implemented interface methods as well. In my employer's code base and in my own projects, I've long had the habit to only use @Override for the former -- implemented abstract methods. However, rethinking the habit, the merit of using the annotations in both cases becomes clear. Despite being more verbose, it does protect against the fragile base class problem (not as grave as C++-related examples) where the interface method name changes, orphaning the would-be implementing method in a derived class.

当然，这种情况多半是夸张的;派生类将不再编译，现在缺少重命名接口方法的实现，今天可能会使用重命名方法重构操作来处理整个代码库。

鉴于IDEA的检查无法配置为忽略已实现的接口方法，今天我将改变我的习惯和我的团队的代码审查标准。

我认为最好在允许的情况下编写@override。它有助于编码。然而，需要注意的是，对于ecipse Helios，无论是sdk 5还是6，都允许为实现的接口方法使用@override注释。对于Galileo，无论是5还是6，@override注释都不允许。

注释确实为编译器提供了关于代码的元数据，当我们重写基类的任何方法时，注释@Override用于继承的情况。它只是告诉编译器你正在重写方法。它可以避免一些常见的错误，如没有遵循正确的方法签名或在方法名称上出错等。所以使用@Override注释是一个很好的实践。