Re: [jboss-dev] Papaki Annotation Scanning Requirements

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > I haven't worded it yet for a definitive requirement. > > There is a subtle difference between scanning & processing. What I don't want is unnecessary processing if a descriptor is metadata complete. > Note that this only goes for EJB annotations, other annotation processing is left beyond scope. You may want things all you like, but it's not going to happen. Metadata complete was changed in EE 6, and it's a lot less complete than it was. The bottom line is if you use JSR 299, then the easiest by far is to do scanning as before. Actually, I think it's the only thing that is doable.