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Re: Annotations on interfaces and super classes <was> Re: URI Contracts

From: Stephan Koops <Stephan.Koops_at_web.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:48:26 +0200

Hi Bill,
> You'll have to elaborate on your concerns. Modeling services with
> inheritance and interfaces is pretty much ubiquitous with any Java
> component model and users will be scratching their heads if it is not
> supported in the specification. I know I have found both subclassing
> and interfaces extremely useful in the few things I have done with JAX-RS.
I've seen in one of your blog entries, that you made this proposal.
Could you give an example?, where it was useful?

Stephan