Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
Bill Burke wrote:
> I suggested this a year or two ago:
>
> * You should have a AnnotationScanner deployer that scans jars for
> annotations and puts an annotation database somewhere in memory that
> other deployers can reference. (This might already exist, I don't know).
This should be served by MDR (metadata repository) subproject of MC:
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-mdr/trunk/
...which as I understand is able to collect type information without the
need for classloading (via Javassist).
Something I'd discussed a bit with Ales awhile back is refactoring
jboss-metadata to instead of using reflection a la:
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/metadata/trunk/src/main/j...
...to instead read from MDR. I admittedly haven't yet digged too much
here, but since you ask the question... ;)
The other important bit to mention about MDR is that it'll contain
information added by AOP, which we don't get from straight reflection.
There is currently a gap now in the object model as it doesn't account
for, for instance, annotations tacked on in *-aop.xml files.
S,
ALR
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