[jbosscache-dev] poll: java tag for shortcut set up methods created only for UT purposes?

Hi, Quite often when contributing in JBoss projects, I create extra protected methods (i.e. setters) to make my life a lot simpler when coding unit tests. People have different opinions (such as the messaging guys who believe every single UT should be coded to the public API), but I personally believe that you shouldn't be necessarily forced to set up a complete environment to run a specific UT. There're a lot of situations where it makes sense to do this, but others where not, and in the latter, having "shortcut" set up methods helps. Sometimes, this "shortcut" methods are already there but other times are not, hence my tendency to create these protected methods. Now, wouldn't it be nice if there's a Java tag that could be applied to this methods to indicate that: "this method is only here to make my unit-testing-coding-life easier and so, should only be called from unit tests, not from production code" I had a quick look around and could not find anything. Do people agree/disagree with creating such tag? Cheers, Galder