RFR 7199353: Allow ConstructorProperties annotation from any package

[Jaroslav Bachorik]

On 9.10.2015 20:33, 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.
>
> 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.

The desire is stemming from the fact that once we put this annotation 
into 'javax.management' package we will never move it into 
'javax.management.annotation' package even if we would ever agree it 
would make sense. The same way we really won't be moving @MXBean anywhere.

-JB-

>
> Alex