Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>>>
>>> FWIW, here's where we are wrt the spec and Jersey:
>>> - @ConsumeMime and @ProduceMime are both @Inherited so they can be
>>> used on superclasses.
>>> - Resource classes are introspected using Class.getMethods. This will
>>> include methods inherited from superclasses but note that a method
>>> overriding one in a superclass requires its own annotations - we
>>> don't do any annotation merging.
>>
>> IIRC, that's basically how EJB3 handled things. Try to conform to the
>> rules of the language. This is why I think KISS might be better and
>> an either/or policy used with interfaces/bean classes.
>>
> KISS is good, I'm just not sure how best to achieve it. E.g. we could
> say that any JAX-RS annotation on a subclass method overrides all
> annotations on the corresponding superclass/interface method, i.e. no
> merging and if you want to override anything you have to repeat all the
> annotations.
>
> Is that too simplistic ?
>
I think I like that.
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