# Jakarta Annotations [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/eclipse-ee4j/common-annotations-api.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/eclipse-ee4j/common-annotations-api)

**Jakarta Annotations** defines a collection of annotations representing common
semantic concepts that enable a declarative style of programming that applies
across a variety of Java technologies.

Jakarta Annotations uses a [Java Platform Module System](http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/)
module name `jakarta.annotation`.