[jboss-dev] Papaki Annotation Scanning Requirements
Carlo de Wolf
cdewolf at redhat.com
Wed Nov 11 11:33:54 EST 2009
On 11/11/2009 05:18 PM, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Carlo de Wolf<cdewolf at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I haven't worded it yet for a definitive requirement.
>>
>> There is a subtle difference between scanning& processing. What I don't want is unnecessary processing if a descriptor is metadata complete.
>> Note that this only goes for EJB annotations, other annotation processing is left beyond scope.
>>
> You may want things all you like, but it's not going to happen.
> Metadata complete was changed in EE 6, and it's a lot less complete
> than it was. The bottom line is if you use JSR 299, then the easiest
> by far is to do scanning as before. Actually, I think it's the only
> thing that is doable.
>
> Rémy
>
>
Right, so we should always scan and index all annotations. The actual
processing should become something optional.
Carlo
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