"wolfc" wrote : | So I don't see why you have to look at annotations on overridden methods. A private method is considered to be non-overriddable. So I need that declaring class somewhere. Ok, I understand now. It's not an override. This isn't even really java since without a setAccessible() it's illegal. :-) | Sub sub = new Sub(); | Method method = Super.class.getDeclaredMethod("doSomething"); | // method.setAccessible(true); | method.invoke(sub); | | Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class Sub can not access a member of class Super with modifiers "private" | at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:65) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:588) | at Sub.main(Sub.java:36) | I guess it's mitigated by the super class having to add the annotation that allows it? Since you don't need to setAccessible() to retrieve annotations from the private super method then I don't think we would be introducing a security hole by supporting it within the MDR (this prints null). | Method method = Super.class.getDeclaredMethod("doSomething"); | //method.setAccessible(true); | System.out.println(method.getAnnotation(Inherited.class)); | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4170330#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...