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Re: Java inheritance

From: David Blevins <david.blevins_at_visi.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:41:03 -0700

On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:

> David Blevins wrote:
>>> Would this feature make you happy?
>> Extremely! That's right on the money.
>> How far off into the future is something like that? You referring
>> to v2.1 of the RI or the JAXB spec itself (or perhaps both)?
>
> This introduces a new semantics for annotations, so it needs a spec
> change.

I assume then that the answer to "how far off" is 1-2 years, would
that be a fair assumption?

Is it possible to get this feature as a vendor extension before then
(i.e. a feature specific to the RI)? Maybe use some sort of RI
specific annotation.

-David