Proposal: Put @Native and @GenerateNativeHeader in same package

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Mar 5 16:18:10 UTC 2013


On 05/03/2013 16:06, Paul Benedict wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Ah, that makes lots more sense! Glad to know the latter is getting 
> deleted. I don't know the particulars of Jon's plans, but if you want 
> to achieve the same functionality of both annotations, I suggest 
> allowing @Native to @Target(PACKAGE).
The annotation is for indicating that a constant will be referenced from 
native code so it needs to go onto the specific fields.

-Alan.



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