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[servlet-spec users] [jsr369-experts] Re: semantics of metadata-complete

From: Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:37:55 +0100

On 25/09/2015 19:04, Shing Wai Chan wrote:
> Since there are some confusion of precise meaning of metadata-complete =
> true
> with regard to annotation scanning, we would like to made clearer in our
> spec what
> it means.
>
> I propose to add the following clarification in Section 8.1 of Servlet
> spec:
> -----
> Annotations that do not have equivalents in the deployment XSD include
> javax.annotation.annotation.HandlesTypes and all of the CDI-related
> annotations,
> and must be processed during annotation scanning.
> -----
>
> Please let me know if you see any problems.

Might it be clearer if we explicitly listed all the annotations that are
to be ignored if metadata-complete = true ?

Mark