Java 8之前，同一注解不能在相同的目標元素上多次使用，例如，如下的注解在Java 8之前是不允許的：
public class SampleClass {
@Quality("Security")
@Quality("Performance")
@Quality("Readability")
public void foo(){
//
}
}
Java 8引入了Repeatable注解（@Repeatable）可以解決這一問題，但光有可重復的注解定義還不夠，還需要它的容器注解，兩者一起來實現可重復注解的使用。實例如下：
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@Repeatable (Qualities.class)
public @interface Quality {
String value();
}
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface Qualities {
Quality[] value();
}
其中，Quality是可重復注解，由@Repeatable注解標明，它的容器注解是Qualities，用于存放所有可重復的Quality（存貯在Quality[]中）；同時還要注意可重復注解和它的容器注解的目標元素必須是一樣的（這也不言自明）。如此這般，我們最開始的
SampleClass 在Java 8環境下就可以安全使用了。
以下單例實現思想來自《Java Design Patterns: A Programmer's Approach》.
該方法利用了Java缺省的Lazy類實例化機制克服了傳統單例模式實現中Lazy實例化方式的不足。
public class Singleton {
private Singleton(){}
public static Singleton getInstance(){
return Helper.instance;
}
static class Helper {
private static Singleton instance = new Singleton();
}
}
以下轉自StackOverflow（
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5074063/maven-error-failure-to-transfer），親測可用。
This worked for me in Windows as well.
- Locate the {user}/.m2/repository (Using Juno /Win7 here)
- In the Search field in upper right of window, type ".lastupdated". Windows will look through all subfolders for these files in the directory. (I did not look through cache.)
- Remove them by Right-click > Delete (I kept all of the lastupdated.properties).
- Then go back into Eclipse, Right-click on the project and select Maven > Update Project. I selected to "Force Update of Snapshots/Releases". Click Ok and the dependencies finally resolved correctly.