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reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/tfennelly">Tom Fennelly</a> in <i>JBoss ESB Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/548731#548731">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Thatnks Keith.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I'll pull together a wiki page next.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>On removing the word "Method" from some of those annotations... sure.  It does look a bit odd.  Not sure why I did that actually <span> :) </span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Re adding the @Action annotation... we can do this, but there's no "need" for it at the moment.  The annotated actions currently work without a Type level annotation and also without implementing/extending any interfaces/classes.  An example of the most basic action...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java"><font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>class</b></font> MyAction <font color="navy">{</font>
 
    @ProcessMethod
    <font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>void</b></font> processOrder(Order order) <font color="navy">{</font>
        <font color="darkgreen">//.....</font>
    <font color="navy">}</font>
<font color="navy">}</font>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So... what currently marks this as an action is the @ProcessMethod annotation (to be renamed) on the processOrder method.  I toyed with adding an @Action annotation but it seemed a bit redundant until such time as we support some type level annotation data.  In fact... we could drop the requirement of having to have the @ProcessMethod in situations where the action only has a single method e.g....</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre ___default_attr="java" jivemacro="code"><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java"><font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>class</b></font> MyAction <font color="navy">{</font>
 
    <font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>void</b></font> processOrder(Order order) <font color="navy">{</font>        <font color="darkgreen">//.....</font>
    <font color="navy">}</font>
<font color="navy">}</font>
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</pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>On @BodyParam and @PropertyParam... yep... you need to pay extra for those and my paypal account is.....  <span> :) </span>  Sorry about that... I forogt to commit them... they're in there now.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>On the process method arg naming annotation(s).... I agree, using those for examples is clearer for sure.</p></div>
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