The meta-attribute Inherited which is defined, is allowed only on attributes level. But with the current compiler, allows us to annotate local variable in a java class. The following is the code and compiled class.
import java.util.Vector;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;

/**
 *
 * This class annotates and filed element with an attribute which is
 * intended to declarare on attribute level.
 * This class will not compile.
 *
 */
public class Field {
 
 @Inherited public Vector vec;
}
vishalb:/home/vv145429/tiger/src/metadata/test3 25 % javac -source 1.5 Field.java
vishalb:/home/vv145429/tiger/src/metadata/test3 26 %