JDK 8 RFR: 8009267: Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in public AnnotatedElement implementations

[Uwe Schindler]

Looks good to me!
Are this the only methods in the corelib that were removed in favour of a default implementation in the interface?

Uwe

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Uwe Schindler
uschindler at apache.org 
Apache Lucene PMC Member / Committer
Bremen, Germany
http://lucene.apache.org/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Darcy [mailto:joe.darcy at oracle.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 3:06 AM
> To: Core-Libs-Dev
> Cc: Jonathan Gibbons; Alexander Buckley; Maurizio Cimadamore;
> uschindler at apache.org
> Subject: JDK 8 RFR: 8009267: Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in public
> AnnotatedElement implementations
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The changes pushed under
> 
>      8007113: Upgrade AnnotatedElement.isAnnotionPresent to be a default
> method
>      http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e04467fa13af
> 
> combined with how javac currently models default methods under pre-JDK-8
> source versions can result in some source compatibility impacts for those
> using JDK 8 to compile under older source versions if the recommended
> practice of setting the bootclasspath is not followed. [1]
> 
> To mitigate these impacts, I'm proposing the changes in
> 
>      8009267: Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in public
> AnnotatedElement implementations
>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8009267.1/
> 
> which have the effect of restoring a concrete isAnnotationPresent method
> to Class, Package, Field, Method, and Constructor. The implementation
> delegates to the default method on the AnnotatedElement interface.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Joe
> 
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2013-
> February/005738.html