[hibernate-dev] HHH-10487 - @Incubating annotation

[Steve Ebersole]

I personally do not in terms of usage from ORM,  nor in usage by ORM users
either. I do wonder about tooling though. Like would it be useful for a
tool to see an implementation of an @Incubating contract being used and
warn the user?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016, 12:02 PM Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Do you see any use case for accessing it reflectively at runtime?
>
> FWIW, OGM's @Experimental has CLASS retention, which I think is
> "enough retention" for its purpose.
>
> 2016-01-29 18:50 GMT+01:00 Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>:
> > Per HHH-10487[1], I want to add an @Incubating annotation to mark APIs
> that
> > are still incubating.  Specifically, what do y'all think of
> > `java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy#CLASS` versus
> > `java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy#RUNTIME`?
> >
> > [1] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-10487
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