Paul,
That makes sense. The consequence are limited, people can either use a field
or a method parameter for this annotation.
Best regards,
Jerome
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM]
> Envoyé : mercredi 25 avril 2007 14:55
> À : dev_at_jsr311.dev.java.net
> Objet : Re: Alternate API proposition
>
> Jerome Louvel wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Good point. If used on local variables, it would indeed
> require some source
> > pre-processing.
>
> I don't think such an approach is viable given our POJO goal. I would
> strongly object to any such pre-processing mechanisms that
> modifies the
> POJOs.
>
> What are the consequences to your example if we rule out such
> pre-processing?
>
> Paul.
>
> > In addition, the annotation would also be usable on fields
> > or a method parameters, just like the common @Resource annotation:
> > http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/annotation/Resource.html
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jerome
> >
> >> -----Message d'origine-----
> >> De : Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM]
> >> Envoyé : mercredi 25 avril 2007 13:17
> >> À : dev_at_jsr311.dev.java.net
> >> Objet : Re: Alternate API proposition
> >>
> >> Hi Jerome,
> >>
> >> Many thanks for sending this. I have not looked in sufficient
> >> detail yet
> >> to make enough informed comments but do i have one
> >> observation and one
> >> technical question that occurred to me when browsing the
> source code.
> >>
> >>
> >> The observation is that i think there is some notational
> >> agreements on
> >> some things (at least in partial scope) even if the names are
> >> different.
> >>
> >>
> >> The question is how do you propose to inject something at
> >> runtime on to
> >> a local variable? or example:
> >>
> >> public AccountResource() {
> >> @Variable("blinksale_id")
> >> String blinksaleId = null;
> >>
> >> this.account = Accounts.getInstance(blinksaleId);
> >> }
> >>
> >> or did you mean for the 'blinksaleId' local variable to be
> a method
> >> parameter instead?
> >>
> >> Annotations on local variables are not retained at runtime [1]:
> >>
> >> "An annotation on a local variable declaration is never
> retained in
> >> the binary representation."
> >>
> >> and it is not possible to get access to such annotations
> at runtime
> >> using Java reflection.
> >>
> >> Paul.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/interfac
> >> es.html#9.6.1.2
> >>
> >> Jerome Louvel wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> As promised, I've worked on a sample application (based on
> >> BlinkSale API)
> >>> that illustrates some of the ideas I have in mind for
> this JSR API.
> >>>
> >>> The Javadocs and source code should be self explaining, but
> >> I can detail
> >>> more if needed.
> >>>
> >>> The idea is to provide a sketch that can illustrates my
> >> point of view and
> >>> triggers some discussions. It doesn't pretend to be a
> >> complete solution, but
> >>> it does seem to provide the main pieces to implement an
> API such as
> >>> BlinkSale. Note that I haven't fully covered the BlinkSale
> >> resources yet,
> >>> but the design pattern should be obvious.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Jerome
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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