Review request for present, directly present, etc. in core reflection javadoc

[Alex Buckley]

On 7/10/2013 12:11 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 11:29 AM, Alex Buckley wrote:
>> Elena Votchennikova pointed out in a comment of JDK-8010679 that
>> classes which implement AnnotatedElement contain method specifications
>> copied from AnnotatedElement. I believe the following classes need to
>> have their method specifications updated:
>>
>> - j.l.Class
>> - j.l.Package
>> - j.l.r.AccessibleObject
>>   (re: j.l.r.Field, j.l.r.Executable, j.l.r.Method, j.l.r.Constructor)
>> - j.l.r.Parameter
>
> The specifications on the implementation classes should generally just
> be @inheritdoc'ed (meaning no explicit update should be needed in those
> files), but I'll double check.

Is there a reason why isAnnotationPresent in the classes has an 
@inheritDoc for its main description, but the six 
get[Declared]Annotation... methods don't?

Alex