Excellent, glad to hear it!
Josh Juneau
http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com
https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866
> On Sep 16, 2016, at 6:11 PM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hello Volunteers,
>>
>> While reviewing the Java EE Guardians list in preparation for JavaOne, I
>> came across some apparently very low hanging fruit. A quick search of
>> our JIRA did not reveal an existing issue for this, so I'm filing it
>> now: JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-1430-Repeatable Annotations support.
>
> Nice ;)
>
>> Here is the Java EE Guardians thread: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/javaee-guardians/4vb_kdWhMj8>.
>>
>> A quick grep of our annotations (excluding the now deprecated
>> ManagedBeans ones) reveals the following likely candidates:
>>
>> public @interface ManagedProperty {
>> ./src/main/java/javax/faces/annotation/ManagedProperty.java
>>
>> public @interface ListenerFor {
>> ./src/main/java/javax/faces/event/ListenerFor.java
>> public @interface ListenersFor {
>> ./src/main/java/javax/faces/event/ListenersFor.java
>>
>> public @interface ResourceDependencies {
>> ./src/main/java/javax/faces/application/ResourceDependencies.java
>> public @interface ResourceDependency {
>> ./src/main/java/javax/faces/application/ResourceDependency.java
>>
>> Any reason we should not make these SE 8 repeatable compatible?
>
> @ResourceDependency and @ListenersFor are perfect for this indeed.
>
> @ManagedProperty however would make far less sense. It's a qualifier with a single non-binding attribute that only targets a field. It wouldn't be very logical to qualify the same injection point twice or take two EL outcomes and somehow assign that to a single field.
>
> But +1 for those other two.
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
>
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>>
>> I plan to implement this during my time in the JavaOne HackerGarten
>> Monday at 10am PDT [1].
>>
>> Ed
>>
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>> [1] http://hackergarten.net/
>