Interesting that you bring it up in this context. I've been thinking about
something similar in a completely different context.
That is, if I understand you right. Do I get it right you are basically
asking for something like (for lack of a better term) macro annotations?
Annotations that will be expanded into a number of other annotations at
runtime? Because that's basically what I am thinking of.
There are many areas in which they could be useful, so maybe we don't need
something JAX-RS specific, but something a little more general instead.
I could imagine that you would define macro annotations using....
annotations. I will see if I can create an example of what I mean and send a
link.
2008/7/14 Matt Brozowski <brozow_at_opennms.org>:
> It would be nice if I could define new annotations that function the same
> way as various of the JAX-RS / Jersey annotations.
>
> This would enable me to aggregate a set of the Annotations that I'd like to
> combine into a single annotation that I could then apply to my Resources and
> Providers.
>
> An example of a use case for this is as follows:
>
> I use the Spring integration contribution so I can work with Spring wiring
> of my resources. These resources are annotated with Spring specific
> annotations related to lifecycle and such as well as to indicate that they
> are spring components.
>
> I also need to Annotate these resources with Jersey annotations that
> indicate the lifecycle of the beans and the two must match or things just
> don't work.
>
> I was thinking that it would be nice to define a new annotation of my own I
> could use that would in turn be annotationed with the appropriate Jersey and
> Spring annotations so that I could use a single lifecycle annotation that
> would tell each IoC container the lifecycle of the component.
>
> Spring's @Component annotation works this way and I thought it would make
> sense for the Jersey / JAX-RS annotations as well.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
> Matt
>
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