src/java.compiler/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/SimpleAnnotationValueVisitor6.java

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2005, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2005, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this

@@ -39,31 +39,32 @@
  * appropriate for the {@link SourceVersion#RELEASE_6 RELEASE_6}
  * source version.  Visit methods call {@link
  * #defaultAction} passing their arguments to {@code defaultAction}'s
  * corresponding parameters.
  *
- * <p> Methods in this class may be overridden subject to their
- * general contract.  Note that annotating methods in concrete
- * subclasses with {@link java.lang.Override @Override} will help
- * ensure that methods are overridden as intended.
- *
- * <p> <b>WARNING:</b> The {@code AnnotationValueVisitor} interface
- * implemented by this class may have methods added to it in the
- * future to accommodate new, currently unknown, language structures
- * added to future versions of the Java&trade; programming language.
- * Therefore, methods whose names begin with {@code "visit"} may be
- * added to this class in the future; to avoid incompatibilities,
- * classes which extend this class should not declare any instance
- * methods with names beginning with {@code "visit"}.
+ * @apiNote
+ * Methods in this class may be overridden subject to their general
+ * contract.
+ *
+ * <p id=note_for_subclasses><strong>WARNING:</strong> The {@code
+ * AnnotationValueVisitor} interface implemented by this class may
+ * have methods added to it in the future to accommodate new,
+ * currently unknown, language structures added to future versions of
+ * the Java&trade; programming language.  Therefore, methods whose
+ * names begin with {@code "visit"} may be added to this class in the
+ * future; to avoid incompatibilities, classes and subclasses which
+ * extend this class should not declare any instance methods with
+ * names beginning with {@code "visit"}.</p>
  *
  * <p>When such a new visit method is added, the default
- * implementation in this class will be to call the {@link
- * #visitUnknown visitUnknown} method.  A new simple annotation
- * value visitor class will also be introduced to correspond to the
- * new language level; this visitor will have different default
- * behavior for the visit method in question.  When the new visitor is
- * introduced, all or portions of this visitor may be deprecated.
+ * implementation in this class will be to directly or indirectly call
+ * the {@link #visitUnknown visitUnknown} method.  A new simple
+ * annotation value visitor class will also be introduced to
+ * correspond to the new language level; this visitor will have
+ * different default behavior for the visit method in question.  When
+ * a new visitor is introduced, portions of this visitor class may be
+ * deprecated, including its constructors.
  *
  * @param <R> the return type of this visitor's methods
  * @param <P> the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's methods.
  *
  * @author Joseph D. Darcy