Hello Experts, The discussion in this list about annotation inheritance and method level validation reminded me of this collection of rules to that effect, so, here they are. I want to bring to your attention this document from JavaEE platform architect Bill Shannon about annotations. From: Bill Shannon B> I've written up a set of "meta-rules" for annotations, that is, B> rules for how annotations should be defined to work. These rules B> collect together information that is in some of our specs while B> also providing some of the design principles we had in mind when B> we first started using annotations. B> Of course, there's also a bunch of exceptions and special cases B> that I've tried to document. B> http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/pages/AnnotationRules B> Your feedback is encouraged, either privately or on the list. B> Feel free to forward this message to other experts and expert groups. Ed -- | edward.burns(a)oracle.com | office: +1 407 458 0017 | homepage: | http://ridingthecrest.com/ _______________________________________________ beanvalidation-dev mailing list beanvalidation-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/beanvalidation-dev