In the program below, the annotation is attached to the use of a type. This is strictly speaking not a declaration.

    import java.lang.annotation.*;
    @Target(ElementType.METHOD)
    @interface A { }
    class NonDeclaration extends java.util.ArrayList<@A String> { }

Currently java reports the following error:

    NonDeclaration.java:4: error: annotation type not applicable to this kind of declaration
    class NonDeclaration extends java.util.ArrayList<@A String> { }
                                                     ^
    1 error

The error message should be reformulated.