What is the status of JSR 305?

JSR 305 will not be part of Java 8:

  • Java 8 is still scheduled for March 18, 2014.
  • JSR 305 remains dormant as of March 5, 2014.

As described in this answer, JSR-305 proposes new annotations such as @NonNull, while JSR-308 proposes allowing annotations in new places such as on generic declarations.

Quoting JSR 308 page:

…this document does not propose any annotations, merely specifying where they can appear in Java code.

JSR 308 (annotations in new places) is included in java 8 under JEP 104.

As of 2017, JSR 305 (new annotations) continues to carry official status of “Dormant”. A question about it's status in the google group has been unanswered since 2010.

There is a reference implementation of the JSR-305 annotations here which is used by many projects, including guava. With maven you can use the JSR-305 reference implementation by adding this to your pom:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
    <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>

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