Jul 23
There is a lot of chatter on the topic of annotation overloading:
Cedric’s: Overriding annotations
Bill’s: XML overrides for EJB3
I think that:
- We do need a way to override annotations for deploy time
- We need to make this ’standard’ and not specific for one spec or set of specs
- We need it to just work. I want my annotation consumer to also understand the fact that there may be a file called annotations.xml in META-INF or META-INF/package or in each package, or whatever…. that has the overriding elements
I agree with Gavin that “I really wish something like this would have been included in JSR-175″.
