[jbosstools-dev] @Target for qualifier type

[Alexey Kazakov]

  Hi Pete,

Could you take a look at https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7710
JSR-299 says that a qualifier type is a Java annotation defined as 
@Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) or @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER}) 
(an event qualifier type):

    /2.3.2. Defining new qualifier types/
    /A qualifier type is a Java annotation defined as @Target({METHOD,
    FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) and @Retention(RUNTIME)./
    /.../


    /10.1. Event types and qualifier types/
    /.../
    /An event qualifier type is just an ordinary qualifier type as
    specified in Section 2.3.2, “Defining new qualifier types” with the
    exception that it may be declared @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER})./
    /.../


But the spec doesn't require to treat other kinds of @Target (for 
example @Target({FIELD, METHOD, PARAMETER} which is used in weld-jsf-jee 
archetype) as a definition error.
It seems that we got it wrong and if there is any @Target except 
@Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) or @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER}) 
then JBT marks such definitions as errors:

    /Qualifier annotation type must be annotated with @Target({TYPE,
    METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER}) or @Target({METHOD, FIELD}) [JSR-299
    §2.3.2, §10.1]/

Can you confirm that actually a qualifier type could have any @Target?

Thanks.
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