introduce @OverridesAttribute for @StereoType --------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-229 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-229 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Beans Affects Versions: 1.1.EDR Reporter: Mark Struberg Fix For: 2.0 (discussion) We recently had a thread on the DeltaSpike list about using StereoTypes in real world applications: http://markmail.org/thread/ntqwnsyukjvdwspm ------ Imagine the following Stereotype for my Services (I spare out the standard stuff) @StereoType @Secured @Transactional @ApplicationScoped public @interface @Service {} The problem here is that there is no way to 'propagate' any rolesAllowed from @Service to @Secured, etc. What I'd like to have is something like ... public @interface @Service { String[] rolesAllowed(); TransactionAttributeType transactionType(); } where the rolesAllowed() would get propagated to the @Secured meta-annotation and transactionType() to the @Transactional ----------- Gerhard Petracek now pointed me to a cool feature which is used in JSR-303 BVAL: @OverridesAttribute http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/validation/OverridesAttribute.html We should ping the BVAL EG for the details. There are quite a few little tricks and side effects to consider. On the implementation side, we could e.g. pick the @StereoType annotation and automatically propagate those values to the AnnotatedType which get's passed to the Extensions