From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:52:55 -0700

The Java SE team is enhancing the annotation support in Java SE 8
based largely on requirements from our use of annotations in Java EE.
You can find more about their plans here:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2012-August/004636.html

If you see anything that doesn't seem aligned with our needs, please
let me know.