What is the list of valid @SuppressWarnings warning names in Java?

It depends on your IDE or compiler.

Here is a list for Eclipse Galileo:

• all to suppress all warnings
• boxing to suppress warnings relative to boxing/unboxing operations
• cast to suppress warnings relative to cast operations
• dep-ann to suppress warnings relative to deprecated annotation
• deprecation to suppress warnings relative to deprecation
• fallthrough to suppress warnings relative to missing breaks in switch statements
• finally to suppress warnings relative to finally block that don’t return
• hiding to suppress warnings relative to locals that hide variable
• incomplete-switch to suppress warnings relative to missing entries in a switch statement (enum case)
• nls to suppress warnings relative to non-nls string literals
• null to suppress warnings relative to null analysis
• restriction to suppress warnings relative to usage of discouraged or forbidden references
• serial to suppress warnings relative to missing serialVersionUID field for a serializable class
• static-access to suppress warnings relative to incorrect static access
• synthetic-access to suppress warnings relative to unoptimized access from inner classes
• unchecked to suppress warnings relative to unchecked operations
• unqualified-field-access to suppress warnings relative to field access unqualified
• unused to suppress warnings relative to unused code

List for Indigo adds:

• javadoc to suppress warnings relative to javadoc warnings
• rawtypes to suppress warnings relative to usage of raw types
• static-method to suppress warnings relative to methods that could be declared as static
• super to suppress warnings relative to overriding a method without super invocations

List for Juno adds:

• resource to suppress warnings relative to usage of resources of type Closeable
• sync-override to suppress warnings because of missing synchronize when overriding a synchronized method

Kepler and Luna use the same token list as Juno (list).

Others will be similar but vary.

All values are permitted (unrecognized ones are ignored). The list of recognized ones is compiler specific.

In The Java Tutorials unchecked and deprecation are listed as the two warnings required by The Java Language Specification, therefore, they should be valid with all compilers:

Every compiler warning belongs to a category. The Java Language Specification lists two categories: deprecation and unchecked.

The specific sections inside The Java Language Specification where they are defined is not consistent across versions. In the Java SE 8 Specification unchecked and deprecation are listed as compiler warnings in sections 9.6.4.5. @SuppressWarnings and 9.6.4.6 @Deprecated, respectively.

For Sun's compiler, running javac -X gives a list of all values recognized by that version. For 1.5.0_17, the list appears to be:

• all
• deprecation
• unchecked
• fallthrough
• path
• serial
• finally