What's the difference between interface and @interface in java?

Question

I haven\'t touched Java since using JBuilder in the late 90\'s while at University, so I\'m a little out of touch - at any rate I\'ve been working on a small Java project th

Answer 1

The interface keyword indicates that you are declaring a traditional interface class in Java.
The @interface keyword is used to declare a new annotation type.

See docs.oracle tutorial on annotations for a description of the syntax.
See the JLS if you really want to get into the details of what @interface means.