During JavaOne 2014, I suddenly realized I was talking with
Collin Fagan, who has been of great help to me over the years via
his blogs and articles relating to Java Swing development,
such as this one. We were chatting at the end of Werner Dietl's
BOF on type annotations, where I had presented some experimental
work done in this area by Jan Lahoda for NetBeans IDE. More on that
another time.
However, Collin mentioned his idea of a @Hack annotation. Often,
when you're...