[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-43?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.sys... ] Pete Muir edited comment on CDI-43 at 8/20/12 1:47 PM: ------------------------------------------------------- A more formal proposal: Add {code} @Target({ElementType.TYPE}) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS) public @interface HandlesTypes { Class[] value(); } {code} (Name is a strawman...) This annotation can be applied to an extension class, and provides a hint to the container about classes or annotations which this extension is interested in. If this annotation is used, the container, as a performance optimisation, may only call ProcessAnnotatedType observer methods: * that have the event type (or a super class or super interface of the event type) in the set of handled types * that have an annotation (applied to the type, constructor, constructor parameter, method, method parameter or field) that is in the set of handled types and may not call a ProcessAnnotatedType observer method for other event types. was (Author: pmuir): A more formal proposal: Add {code} @Target({ElementType.TYPE}) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) public @interface HandlesTypes { Class[] value(); } {code} (Name is a strawman...) This annotation can be applied to an extension class, and provides a hint to the container about classes or annotations which this extension is interested in. If this annotation is used, the container, as a performance optimisation, may only call ProcessAnnotatedType observer methods: * that have the event type (or a super class or super interface of the event type) in the set of handled types * that have an annotation (applied to the type, constructor, constructor parameter, method, method parameter or field) that is in the set of handled types and may not call a ProcessAnnotatedType observer method for other event types. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira