In section 10.5.4 and 10.5.6, the spec requires that the @Observes annotation define a notify parameter which accepts the Notify enum. However, the Java compiler does not allow an annotation to define a method named notify().

public @interface Observes
{
    Notify notify() default Notify.SYNCHRONOUSLY;
}

This annotation parameter will need to be renamed. I suggest "notifyObserver".

public void observerMethod(@Observes(notifyObserver=IF_EXISTS) EventType event)

-Dan

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