"alesj" wrote : I still don't see why it has to be a MutableCI. no reason besides the the one i postes above really. when i discussed this with Kabir we figured that people using Mutable* interfaces would probably work with Mutable objects, then it made sense to support both MCI and String. but what do you suggest? only String or CI? - as i said above, using CI doesnt give any value to the String parameter thats already there. "alesj" wrote : | Why isn't the one in MDR good enough? | Afaik AOP already uses MDR. | | btw: there is a Javassist kind of Signature: | - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-mdr/trunk/src/main/... | I already use it in annotation scanning. | yup, that would work, but since it it only have CtMethod as an argument we either need to add a method to MMI (that again would use mdr) or add a method to mdr to support a MMI/MCI interface. personally i just feel that such a method is something that "belongs" in MMI/MCI, but its not a big thing either. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204924#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...