Annotations are shown multiple time in javadocs

[jetbrains]

Annotations are shown multiple time in javadocs

[amaembo]

This is not the annotation package bug. This is how javadoc tool works when the annotation has multiple targets including TYPE_USE. E.g. for a class like this:

import java.lang.annotation.*;

@Documented
@Target({ElementType.TYPE_USE, ElementType.METHOD})
public @interface Test {
  @Test String value() default "";
}

Generating javadoc (simply by invoking javadoc Test.java) you will see duplicated annotation:

@Test
@Test java.lang.String value

You may consider reporting an issue to OpenJDK

JSR-305 works because it doesn't provide TYPE_USE target. You may use our annotations-java5 package as an alternativem it should work as well.