Retrofitting Java EE annotation types

[Alex Buckley]

Bill, Mike,

Can you share your plans to retrofit existing EE annotation types to 
support repetition?

Also, it would be helpful to know if your annotation-reading frameworks 
are working OK with the modified core reflection API.

Alex

On 8/29/2012 12:05 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
> Just to provide a little background for people here...
>
> This is something we've been asking for for some time to support our
> use of annotations in Java EE.  We worked with Alex to ensure that
> this proposal will meet our needs.  We believe it does, and we plan
> to retrofit our existing annotations to take advantage of this new
> feature when it's available.
>
> Thanks to Alex for putting this together and working through all the
> details to make it a formal spec!
>
> 	Bill Shannon
> 	Java EE Spec Lead
>