I do think you need some inheritance rules though. For example, in the
EJB 3 specification you may override a business method in a subclass and
provide different metadata.
I also wish that JAX-RS annotations could be extracted from an
implemented interface. i.e.:
public class StoreBean implements ShoppingStore {
public Book getBook(int id) {...}
}
@Path("/shopping")
public interface ShoppingStore {
@GET @Path("bookstore/books/{id}")
public Book getBook(@PathParam("id") int id);
}
This would be very similar to the EJB3/JAX-WS integration style.
Marc Hadley wrote:
> IIRC, @Inherited only applies to classes so, even if @Path was
> inherited, any annotations on the abstract service class methods (@GET,
> @ProduceMime etc) wouldn't be inherited and a subclass would appear to
> unannotated except for the class-level annotations.
>
> Marc.
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Adam Karl wrote:
>
>> Here is my situation. I would like to define an abstract Service
>> class such as below. Now when the real service classes extend my
>> service class, I would like them to inherit the path annotation. This
>> allows the service classes to know nothing about the implementation of
>> my service architecture other than the fact that they should be
>> extending my abstract service class. Currently, the @Path annotation
>> is not @Inherited so this doesn't work for me. Is there a reason why
>> @Path cannot be @Inherited?
>>
>> @Path("{serviceClassName}")
>> public abstract class AbstractService
>> {
>> public AbstractService getServiceClass(@PathParam("serviceClassName")
>> String serviceClassName)
>> {
>> return this;
>> }
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> ____________________________________________
>> Adam Karl
>> Nighthawk Radiology
>> Software Engineer
>>
>> Phone: +1 414 220 4295 ext-8319
>> Email: akarl_at_nighthawkrad.net
>>
>>
>
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