RFR: JDK-8027796: Refactor Core Reflection for Type Annotations

[Paul Sandoz]

On Nov 4, 2013, at 8:36 PM, Joel Borggrén-Franck <joel.franck at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Please review this small refactoring of the type annotations reflection code. This fix just makes the types final since the code wasn't designed for inheritance.
> 
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jfranck/8027796/webrev.00/
> jbs: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027796
> 

+1

FWIW (take it or leave it) the "final" on AnnotatedTypeFactory.buildAnnotatedType is redundant since AnnotatedTypeFactory is final and thus cannot be overridden with another class that shadows the static method.

Paul.