Does it make sense to have application-specific code conventions as a complementary approach to code annotations?

Abstract

Code annotations are extensively used by Java developers, especially in enterprise frameworks and APIs such as Spring and Java EE. Different code elements that frequently share some similarities, sometimes, repeat the annotations. The goal of this paper is to evaluate whether a real-world system could use code conventions as a means to avoid replicating code annotations. We report on a study on the software used for the EMBRACE Space Weather program at INPE to search for similarities.