Well, my guess is that the original intent was to provide an easy way to remove qualifiers or interceptor binding with members from class or method. It's powerful but probably too overkill. +1 for your proposal. Antoine On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:56 PM Martin Kouba <mkouba(a)redhat.com <mailto:mkouba@redhat.com>> wrote: Hi all, while working on https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-646 I figured out that all "AnnotatedX.remove(Annotation annotation)" methods declare the following javadoc: "Remove annotations with (a) the same type and (b) the same annotation member value for each member which is not annotated {@link Nonbinding}. The container calls the {@link Object#equals(Object)} method of the annotation member value to compare values." I don't think this is correct. @Nonbinding is only used for interceptors bindings and qualifiers whereas the purpose of AnnotatedType SPI is more general. I believe those remove() methods should simply use java.lang.annotation.Annotation.equals(Object) to identify annotations to remove. What do you think? Thanks, Martin _______________________________________________ cdi-dev mailing list cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:cdi-dev@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev Note that for all code provided on this list, the provider licenses the code under the Apache License, Version 2 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html). For all other ideas provided on this list, the provider waives all patent and other intellectual property rights inherent in such information.