[AnimalMuppet]

I don't think you can say that java "doesn't use type annotations".

[tmtvl]

Well, technically you do have the var keyword now.

  var x = MyAwesomeClassFactoryBeanTemplate.getBean().getFactoryInstance().createNewMyAwesomeClass(foo, bar);

[kirankp89]

I am not super familiar with Java but that syntax typically implies type inference, which is not the same as not needing type annotations.

[bcrosby95]

Not only is it type inference, it's limited to locally declared variables.