Of course, the above was pseudo code. What I really mean is that you don't need to change the MetaData api, you could just have a static helper method (real code): | public static boolean isAnnotationPresent(MetaData metaData, String name) | { | if (metaData == null) | throw new IllegalArgumentException("Null metadata"); | | Object test = metaData.getMetaData(name); | return test != null && (test instanceof Annotation); | } | But such a non-annotation using the name of annotation class would break the assumption of how the annotation stuff works in the metadata. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129101#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...