[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-43) Allow Extensions to specify the annotations that they are interested in

Allow Extensions to specify the annotations that they are interested in ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-43 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-43 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Portable Extensions Affects Versions: 1.0 Reporter: Stuart Douglas Assignee: Pete Muir Labels: FAQ, with-annotations Fix For: 1.1.PRD Currently portable extensions that wish to look for a specific annotation have to look through all availible classes in the ProcessAnnotatatedType event, which is quite inefficient. It would be good if extensions could do something like: public void processAnnotatedType(@Observes @RequireAnnotations({(a)Unwraps.class}) ProcessAnnotatedType pat) This could allow the container to take advantage of annotation indexing to improve boot time performance, as well as reducing uneeded processing in the observer.