This is a total newb question. I was trying to write a validator...used some annotations like:

@Target({value=TYPE, ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)

...and my IDE is giving me errors on those lines, saying "Retention" cannot be resolved to a type and such.

I'm sure this is super simple, maybe a dependency in a pom..

any help is much appreciated

O.k., with the proper imports this seemed to work (not sure why the documentation omits this)

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;

import javax.validation.Constraint;
import javax.validation.Payload;


@Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)