What does @Override mean?

Question

public class NaiveAlien extends Alien
{

    @Override
    public void harvest(){}

}

I was trying to understand my friend\'s code, and I do not ge

Answer 1

@Override means you are overriding the base class method. In java6, it also mean you are implementing a method from an interface. It protects you from typos when you think are overriding a method but you mistyped something.