I am thinking this may not be possible in Java because annotation and its parameters are resolved at compile time. I have an interface as follows,

public interface FieldValues {
   String[] FIELD1 = new String[]{"value1", "value2"};
}

and another class as,

@SomeAnnotation(locations = {"value1", "value2"})
public class MyClass {
   ....
}

I mark many classes with the annotation and I would like to know if I can avoid specifying the strings in every annotation I would instead prefer to use

@SomeAnnotation(locations = FieldValues.FIELD1)
public class MyClass {
   ....
}

However this gives compilation errors like annotation value should be an array initializer etc. Does someone know how I can use a String constant or String[] constant to supply value to an annotation?

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