"alesj" wrote : "alesj" wrote : which I think is somehow too strict to require security check, since is a simple equals/hash call made by HashSet to remove annotation metadata. | Doing direct '==' would probably do the trick, but that's too impl specific. | Not to mention the horrible code that would come out of it. ;-) Like Adrian said yesterday on the jboss-dev list, think before you shoot. :-) This does the trick, and it doesn't require any hash/equals: | Object[] allMetaData = levelMetaData.getMetaData(); | Annotation[] annotations = levelMetaData.getAnnotations(); | // all meta data is not null, since level metadata is not empty | int allSize = allMetaData.length; | int annotationsSize = annotations != null ? annotations.length : 0; | | // do we have something else than annotations | if (allSize > annotationsSize) | { | return true; | } | ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4140574#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...