bottleneck by java.lang.Class.getAnnotations() - a better patch

[Alan Bateman]

Peter,

I haven't studied your patch yet but moving the fields into a helper 
class is what was envisaged. Here's another reminder that the 
initialization has been crying out to be re-worked for some time:

http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7122142

-Alan.