[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1671?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... ] Antonio Goncalves commented on FORGE-1671: ------------------------------------------ Another attempt... but looks like it's impossible to do with Roaster at the moment : {code} public class BeanValidationAnnotation { 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