Yes, you can have it on a superclass as Matt says. So this is a bug in RHDS/JBossTools. Please report it in their JIRA. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4074332#4074332 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4074332