RFR 7199353: Allow ConstructorProperties annotation from any package

[Mandy Chung]

On 10/09/2015 11:33 AM, Alex Buckley wrote:
> On 10/9/2015 1:03 AM, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
>> Well, if anything the @CP annotation is related to
>> javax.management.openmbean package. All the OpenType and CompositeData
>> definitions are in this package. @CP annotation is used to influence the
>> way a CompositeData instance is reconstructed into an instance of the
>> mapped custom type.
>
> OK, so if ConstructorProperties is more closely related to 
> CompositeData than to MXBean per se, then put ConstructorProperties 
> into javax.management.openmbean. The MXBean spec (i.e. the javadoc) is 
> obviously completely dependent on that package already.
>

FWIW.  @ConstructorProperties is closely related to MXBean.

MXBean provides an easy way to define and implement your managed mbean 
using user-defined types and the MXBean framework converts those types 
into the public API and javax.management.openmbean types so that the 
client doesn't need the user-defined types to be present.  In other 
words, MXBean removes the need to code in javax.management.openmbean.

Mandy

> The desire for a new package seems misplaced to me, given how the real 
> driver for a new package -- the draft JEP for MBean registration -- 
> isn't going anywhere fast.
>
> Alex