Yes, you're right. So you would need to implement the annotation @interface. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Stuart Douglas <stuart(a)baileyroberts.com.au&gt; wrote: > What about for @NonBinding members? Won't implementations need to perform their own equality check if there are non binding members? > > Stuart > > ________________________________________ > From: Gavin King [gavin.king(a)gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, 30 November 2009 1:22 PM > To: Shane Bryzak > Cc: Stuart Douglas; seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > Subject: Re: [seam-dev] First cab off the rank! > > Yeah. Probably you could just stick the members in an array. You > probably don't need to actually implement the annotation interface. > You would only need to implement Annotation. > > Well, the spec does not say explicitly that this would work, but it > seems fairly safe. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 29, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Shane Bryzak <sbryzak(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> Good point - isn't this simply a case though of implementing the >> equals() and hashCode() methods and checking that the members are >> equal, >> i.e. the same way that AnnotationLiteral does it? >> >> On 30/11/09 06:36, Stuart Douglas wrote: >>> Does it still work when the annotation has members? That was why I >>> needed the javassist. >>> >>> Stuart >>> >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: seam-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [seam-dev- >>> bounces(a)lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Shane Bryzak >>> [sbryzak(a)redhat.com] >>> Sent: Monday, 30 November 2009 5:34 AM >>> To: Gavin King >>> Cc: seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> Subject: Re: [seam-dev] First cab off the rank! >>> >>> Nope, just wrote my own impl of Annotation which I could then pass >>> into >>> BeanManager.getBeans(). >>> >>> On 30/11/09 04:32, Gavin King wrote: >>> >>>> You used a jdk dynamicproxy? Probably a better idea. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Shane Bryzak&lt;sbryzak(a)redhat.com&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Done, although I didn't need to use Javassist. ;) >>>>> >>>>> On 30/11/09 02:38, Gavin King wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Stuart has some code to do this using javassist. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Shane Bryzak&lt;sbryzak(a)redhat.com&gt; >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Almost got this working, however I need to be able to >>>>>>> reflectively >>>>>>> create an >>>>>>> AnnotationLiteral, given a String containing the fully qualified >>>>>>> name of the >>>>>>> qualifier.  Anyone done this before? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> seam-dev mailing list >>> seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> seam-dev mailing list >> seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev > -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org