Do package-level annotations apply to subpackages?

Question

If I have a tree of packages like so:

com.foo
com.foo.bar
com.foo.bar.baz

and then I add a package-info.java file in com.foo and add an annotation to the com.foo package, will the annotation also be applied to the children packages, com.foo.bar and com.foo.bar.baz (and so on)? Or will I need to make another package-info.java in each of them with the same annotations?

Answer 1

The annotation is not applied to the "children" packages (by my experiment). But it might get implemented in higher versions of Java (see JEP 104)