title: How to create an instance of an annotation
body: <p>I am trying to do some Java annotation magic. I must say I am still catching up on annotation tricks and that certain things are still not quite clear to me.</p>
  
  <p>So... I have some annotated classes, methods and fields. I have a method, which uses reflection to run some checks on the classes and inject some values into a class. This all works fine.</p>
  
  <p>However, I am now facing a case where I need an instance (so to say) of an annotation. So... annotations aren't like regular interfaces and you can't do an anonymous implementation of a class. I get it. I have looked around some posts here regarding similar problems, but I can't seem to be able to find the answer to what I am looking for.</p>
  
  <p>I would basically like to get and instance of an annotation and be able to set some of it's fields using reflection (I suppose). Is there at all a way to do this?</p>