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Re: JSR311: _at_Target of FIELD for _at_*Param annotations

From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:57:04 -0400

On Mar 10, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>>
>> That's hardly fair, nothing is stopping you innovating.
>
> Sure it is. I want to use @*PARAM on fields, for resource classes,
> MessageBodyReader/Writers, and mapping POJO parameters. Now,
> because you're refusing to change the @Target, I either have to
> scrap it, or have a parallel *exact* annotation hierarchy.
>
Your innovation is a more powerful set of annotations, I'm not
stopping you defining such a set.

Marc.

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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.