Provide literals for built-in annotations ----------------------------------------- Key: CDI-485 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-485 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Affects Versions: 1.2.Final Reporter: Jozef Hartinger Annotation literals are often useful and therefore many projects implement them themselves. For example: https://github.com/apache/deltaspike/blob/master/deltaspike/core/api/src/... https://github.com/weld/core/blob/master/impl/src/main/java/org/jboss/wel... https://github.com/forge/furnace-cdi/blob/master/impl/src/main/java/org/j... https://github.com/astefanutti/metrics-cdi/blob/master/impl/src/main/java... to name a few. It would be nice to provide these within the CDI API, e.g: {code:JAVA} @Target( { TYPE, METHOD, PARAMETER, FIELD }) @Retention(RUNTIME) @Documented @Qualifier public @interface Default { @SuppressWarnings("all") final class Literal extends AnnotationLiteral<Default> implements Default { private Literal() { } } final Default INSTANCE = new Literal(); } {code}