Hi All, I have a question about repeated annotation depth. If this is not the proper mailing list group, please tell me where I should send it to. My question will be about the depth of container annotations. For instance, assume there are 3 annotations. - RepeatedAnn - ContainerAnn - ContainerContainerAnn So, ContainerContainerAnn can have ContainerAnn and that can also have RepeatbleAnn in it. In this case, get*AnnotationsByType(RepeatableAnn) APIs wont return repeteableAnns in depth 2. Java docs don't talk about the depth. I wonder if the get*AnnotationsByType api should return the annotations of all depth? If we have below annotations: @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Repeatable(ContainerAnn.class) @interface RepeatableAnn { String value(); } @Inherited @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Repeatable(ContainerContainerAnn.class) @interface ContainerAnn { RepeatableAnn[] value(); } @Inherited @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @interface ContainerContainerAnn { ContainerAnn[] value(); } And the main class is annotated by : @ContainerAnn({@RepeatableAnn("Parent-3")}) @ContainerAnn({@RepeatableAnn("Parent-4")}) public class Test { ... when we call getAnnotationsByType(RepeatableAnn.class) on this class, we get nothing because RepeatableAnn is contained by ContainerAnn which is also contained by ContainerContainerAnn. In other words, RepeatableAnn is in depth 2 and get*AnnotationsByType APIs only searches depth 1. The test results are: /home/deven/jdk8_20/jdk1.8.0_20/bin$ java repeated.Test CLASS = repeated.Test getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(RepeatableAnn.class) getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(ContainerAnn.class) @repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-3)]) @repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-4)]) getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(ContainerContainerAnn.class) @repeated.ContainerContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-3)]), @repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-4)])]) getAnnotationsByType(RepeatableAnn.class) getAnnotationsByType(ContainerAnn.class) @repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-3)]) @repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-4)]) getAnnotationsByType(ContainerContainerAnn.class) @repeated.ContainerContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-3)]), @repeated.ContainerAnn(value=[@repeated.RepeatableAnn(value=Parent-4)])])