RFR 7199353: Allow ConstructorProperties annotation from any package

[Jaroslav Bachorik]

On 14.10.2015 16:52, Mandy Chung wrote:
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>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> Hm, shouldn't we name the new annotation differently then? @ConstructorMapping ? It is not mandatory that we keep the actual name - we are changing the package anyway ...
>> This may have been discussed previously, Mandy might know. I think at one point that jmx-dev was thinking about matching on any @CP property and that might have influenced the naming.
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> I don’t recall any discussion on the name. The initial suggestion was to match any @CP.   One benefit of keeping it @ConstructorProperties is for easy migration from java.beans to javax.management.
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> I don’t have strong opinion if it should be a different name.

Using a different name could prevent any confusion about 
@j.b.ConstructorProperties

IMO, migration should be pretty straight forward with global replace 
even if we change the annotation name.

-JB-

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> Mandy
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