Another option is the annotations provided with ANTLR 4. Following Pull Request #434, the artifact containing the @NotNull and @Nullable annotations includes an annotation processor that produces compile-time errors and/or warnings in the event one of these attributes is misused (for example, if both are applied to the same item, or if @Nullable is applied to item with a primitive type). The annotation processor provides additional assurance during the software development process that the information conveyed by the application of these annotations is accurate, including in cases of method inheritance.

较新的项目可能应该使用jakarta。annotation-api(雅加达。注释包)。 它从现在的只读javax链接。注释回购和适应新的Jakarta生态系统，旨在将社区从所有与javax相关的头痛中解放出来。

JSR305和FindBugs是由同一个人编写的。两者的维护都很差，但都是标准的，并且得到所有主要ide的支持。好消息是，他们工作得很好。

下面是如何在默认情况下将@Nonnull应用到所有类、方法和字段。 参见https://stackoverflow.com/a/13319541/14731和https://stackoverflow.com/a/9256595/14731

定义@NotNullByDefault

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.meta.TypeQualifierDefault;


    /**
     * This annotation can be applied to a package, class or method to indicate that the class fields,
     * method return types and parameters in that element are not null by default unless there is: <ul>
     * <li>An explicit nullness annotation <li>The method overrides a method in a superclass (in which
     * case the annotation of the corresponding parameter in the superclass applies) <li> there is a
     * default parameter annotation applied to a more tightly nested element. </ul>
     * <p/>
     * @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/9256595/14731
     */
    @Documented
    @Nonnull
    @TypeQualifierDefault(
    {
        ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE,
        ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR,
        ElementType.FIELD,
        ElementType.LOCAL_VARIABLE,
        ElementType.METHOD,
        ElementType.PACKAGE,
        ElementType.PARAMETER,
        ElementType.TYPE
    })
    @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
    public @interface NotNullByDefault
    {
    }

2. 将注释添加到每个包:package-info.java

@NotNullByDefault
package com.example.foo;

更新:截至2012年12月12日，JSR 305被列为“休眠”。根据文档:

被执行委员会投票为“休眠”的JSR，或者已经达到自然生命周期的JSR。

看起来JSR 308正在加入JDK 8，尽管JSR没有定义@NotNull，但是附带的Checkers框架定义了。在撰写本文时，由于这个错误，Maven插件无法使用:https://github.com/typetools/checker-framework/issues/183

如果你正在使用Spring框架构建应用程序，我建议使用来自bean Validation的javax.validation.constraints.NotNull，它被打包在以下依赖项中:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
        <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>

这种注释的主要优点是Spring同时支持用javax.validation.constraints.NotNull注释的方法参数和类字段。要启用支持，您需要做的是:

supply the api jar for beans validation and jar with implementation of validator of jsr-303/jsr-349 annotations (which comes with Hibernate Validator 5.x dependency): <dependency> <groupId>javax.validation</groupId> <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId> <version>1.1.0.Final</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId> <version>5.4.1.Final</version> </dependency> provide MethodValidationPostProcessor to spring's context @Configuration @ValidationConfig public class ValidationConfig implements MyService { @Bean public MethodValidationPostProcessor providePostProcessor() { return new MethodValidationPostProcessor() } } finally you annotate your classes with Spring's org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated and validation will be automatically handled by Spring.

例子:

@Service
@Validated
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {

  @Override
  public Something doSomething(@NotNull String myParameter) {
        // No need to do something like assert myParameter != null  
  }
}

当您尝试调用方法doSomething并传递null作为参数值时，spring(通过HibernateValidator)将抛出ConstraintViolationException。这里不需要手工工作。

您还可以验证返回值。

javax.validation.constraints.NotNull对Beans验证框架的另一个重要好处是，目前它仍在开发中，新特性计划在新版本2.0中实现。

@Nullable呢?在Beans Validation 1.1中没有类似的东西。好吧，我可以争辩说，如果你决定使用@ nonull，而不是任何没有用@NonNull注释的东西都是有效的“nullable”，所以@Nullable注释是无用的。

One of the nice things about IntelliJ is that you don't need to use their annotations. You can write your own, or you can use those of whatever other tool you like. You're not even limited to a single type. If you're using two libraries that use different @NotNull annotations, you can tell IntelliJ to use both of them. To do this, go to "Configure Inspections", click on the "Constant Conditions & Exceptions" inspection, and hit the "Configure inspections" button. I use the Nullness Checker wherever I can, so I set up IntelliJ to use those annotations, but you can make it work with whatever other tool you want. (I have no opinion on the other tools because I've been using IntelliJ's inspections for years, and I love them.)

对于Android项目，您应该使用Android .support.annotation. nonnull和Android .support.annotation. nullable。这些和其他有用的特定于android的注释在支持库中可用。

从http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/support-annotations:

支持库本身也使用这些注释 注解，所以作为支持库的用户，Android Studio将 检查您的代码并基于这些标记潜在的问题 注释。