RFR 8175013: Add @Generated Annotation

[Stephen Colebourne]

+1, I think retention beyond SOURCE makes sense.
Stephen

On 16 March 2017 at 15:44, Ron Shapiro <ronshapiro at google.com> wrote:

> Are there any plans to make the new @Generated annotation have CLASS
> retention? We have a number of compile-time tools that would like to know
> when files are generated. No need at runtime, but it would be good to have
> this information stick around.
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:52 AM Lance Andersen <lance.andersen at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Remi,
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 10:32 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>
> And deprecate the old.
>
>
> We will be deprecating the Java EE modules in Java SE so in a sense that
> is happening.
>
> It would require an MR to common annotations to deprecate the annotation
> in javax.annotation. and the Java EE folks do not have an MR planned at
> this time for that JSR
>
> Best
> Lance
>
>
> Maybe it will be done as a part of another commit given
> javax.annotation.Generated is in another workspace.
>
> so i've added compiler-dev, since this will be commited to langtools.
>
> Rémi
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>
> De: "Alan Bateman" <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
> À: "Lance Andersen" <lance.andersen at oracle.com>, "core-libs-dev" <
> core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Jeudi 16 Mars 2017 14:51:43
> Objet: Re: RFR 8175013: Add @Generated Annotation
>
>
> On 16/03/2017 13:42, Lance Andersen wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Per the discussion [1],  please find the webrev for adding a replacement
> annotation for javax.annotation.Generated .
>
>
> It would be good to have a link from the old @Generated to the new.
>
> -Alan
>
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