In this paper we shall give a survey of the most important characterizations of the notion of distributivity in semilattices with greatest element and we will present some new ones through annihilators and relative maximal filters. We shall also simplify the topological representation for distributive semilattices given in Celani S.A., Topological representation of distributive semilattices, Sci. Math. Japonicae online 8 (2003), 41–51, and show that the meet-relations are closed under composition....