in java what does the @ symbol mean?

Question

I know what it means in a comment for documentation purposes, but outside of that what does it mean? (I would normally just google this but every non letter symbol shows up

Answer 1

The @ sign is used to specify Java Annotation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation

There are built-in Java Annotation and user defined Custom Annotation.

Annotations are used in various ways, such as suppress warning, associate method to URI (Servlet), associate variables to resource (JNDI) etc