[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Can you merge multiple annotations in one?

[chuckadams]

@Stateful isn't Seam's annotation to begin with, and most of the other annotations are pretty orthogonal to each other.  @Role subsumes @Name and @Scope, and maybe they could make it suck up some of the other annotations too.  You still need @Name though, or seam won't even pick it up as a component.

Consolidated annotations aren't really a panacea either -- look at Tapestry for how baroque those can get.  Clearly we're screaming for real syntax macros, but I won't be holding my breath.  Macro-haters do have one point -- textual source transformations suck when it comes to reasoning about code.  There's some macro processors for Java, but I don't think any of them support annotations, and of course most IDEs will fight with them.  Personally, I just make use of IDE templates to make the copying and pasting less arduous.


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