[cdi-dev] Duplicate javax.annotation packages and Java 9

[Martin Kouba]

Dne 23.10.2017 v 10:17 Antoine Sabot-Durand napsal(a):
> I encountered the same type of collision with 
> java.transaction.InvalidTransactionException which is in the JDK and in 
> JTA. I remember sending this problem to jigsaw ML [1], but obviously 
> they didn't have time to do something or expect having Java EE spec do 
> the required stuff :-(.
> Now that JDK9 is out, if we want EE4J 9 (or whatever it's version will 
> be) to support jigsaw, we'll probably have to change packages names :-(.

What packages do you have in mind? We don't "own" javax.annotation and 
we cannot introduce our own priority annotation...

> 
> 
> Antoine
> 
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-July/008779.html
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:51 AM Martin Kouba <mkouba at redhat.com 
> <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     For the record, the CDI API itself does not define a dependency on
>     javax.annotation at all.
> 
>     In fact, I'm wondering why @Priority is not part of JDK?? I suppose the
>     reasons are similar to why javax.annotation.Priority only has
>     @Target({TYPE,PARAMETER}) (even if we tried to push other element
>     types :-(.
> 
>     M
> 
>     Dne 21.10.2017 v 16:22 John Ament napsal(a):
>      > Hey all
>      >
>      >
>      > Not sure where else to turn 😊
>      >
>      >
>      > I'm trying to start testing my apps on Java 9, I believe Java 9 kicks
>      > back the javax.annotation dependency that CDI declares due to a
>     package
>      > collision with the built in JDK's javax.annotation package
>      >
>     <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/javax/annotation/package-summary.html>.
>      > The errors I get are due to missing javax/annotation/Priority.  I'm
>      > wondering if anyone else has tried this, and if there's a clean
>     work around?
>      >
>      >
>      > John
>      >
>      >
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