"@Override" clarification

Question

Hello,
I've been seeing a lot of questions/quizes using @Override and overriding methods.
The "@Override" is only useful for JavaDoc, You can override methods without using it, and the compiler would work just fine.

Answer 1

It is an annotation indeed.
You can switch off the error messages from the ide and it will work without @Override.
But I think it's helpful ^^

Answer 2

@Override is great though. It'll throw an exception if it's not overriding anything, making potential errors easy to avoid. Plus it improves the codes readability.