Descriptors should generate a common parent for different spec versions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: SHRINKDESC-151 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SHRINKDESC-151 Project: ShrinkWrap Descriptors Issue Type: Feature Request Components: api-javaee Reporter: George Gastaldi Assignee: Ralf Battenfeld This affects only the JavaEE API. Some usecases manipulate descriptors regardless of the version it is currently on. The API could be abstracted to a common interface so that common element types to the supported complex types could be used. A sample is provided in https://github.com/forge/javaee-descriptors/. The IMPL remains untouched (as generated by the ShrinkWrap generator) and common types are refactored to a super interface: Super Interface: https://github.com/forge/javaee-descriptors/blob/master/api/src/main/java... Sub Interfaces: https://github.com/forge/javaee-descriptors/blob/master/api/src/main/java... https://github.com/forge/javaee-descriptors/blob/master/api/src/main/java... https://github.com/forge/javaee-descriptors/blob/master/api/src/main/java... The generated code doesn't need to change either. The existence of the super interface is what matters most.