[jboss-dev] Papaki Annotation Scanning Requirements

[Jason T. Greene]

Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I haven't worded it yet for a definitive requirement.
>>
>> There is a subtle difference between scanning & processing. What I don't want is unnecessary processing if a descriptor is metadata complete.
>> Note that this only goes for EJB annotations, other annotation processing is left beyond scope.
> 
> You may want things all you like, but it's not going to happen.
> Metadata complete was changed in EE 6, and it's a lot less complete
> than it was. The bottom line is if you use JSR 299, then the easiest
> by far is to do scanning as before. Actually, I think it's the only
> thing that is doable.

This, however, only happens when you have a beans.xml. If there is no 
beans.xml, then 299 does no scanning.


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