[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1582?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... ] Antonio Goncalves commented on FORGE-1582: ------------------------------------------ I've been trying to create a Bean Validation constraint properly... in vain. What I want to achieve is the following (notice the @List annotation) : {code} @Target({METHOD, FIELD, ANNOTATION_TYPE, CONSTRUCTOR, PARAMETER}) @Retention(RUNTIME) @Documented @Constraint(validatedBy = {}) public @interface Email { String message() default "wrong email address"; Class<?>[] groups() default {}; Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {}; @Target({METHOD, FIELD, ANNOTATION_TYPE, CONSTRUCTOR, PARAMETER}) @Retention(RUNTIME) @interface List { Email[] value(); } } {code} This is the code I've written. Both annotation are generated separately... but I don't know how to add listAnnotation inside emailAnnotation. Any idea ? {code} public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { // This is the inner annotation List final JavaAnnotationSource listAnnotation = Roaster.create(JavaAnnotationSource.class); listAnnotation.setName("List"); listAnnotation.addAnnotation(Retention.class).setEnumValue(RUNTIME); listAnnotation.addAnnotation(Target.class).setEnumValue(METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE); listAnnotation.addAnnotationElement("Email[] value()"); System.out.println(listAnnotation); // This is the annotation @Email final JavaAnnotationSource emailAnnotation = Roaster.create(JavaAnnotationSource.class); emailAnnotation.setPackage("org.agoncal.proj.constraints").setName("Email"); emailAnnotation.addImport(Payload.class); emailAnnotation.addAnnotation(Documented.class); emailAnnotation.addAnnotation(Retention.class).setEnumValue(RUNTIME); emailAnnotation.addAnnotation(Target.class).setEnumValue(METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE); emailAnnotation.addAnnotation(Constraint.class).setLiteralValue("validatedBy", "{}"); emailAnnotation.addAnnotationElement("String message() default \"wrong email address\""); emailAnnotation.addAnnotationElement("Class<?>[] groups() default {}"); emailAnnotation.addAnnotationElement("Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {}"); // I was expecting to have a method like that so I could add annotation inside another one // emailAnnotation.addAnnotationElement(emailAnnotation); System.out.println(emailAnnotation); } } {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira