Java SE JSR 250 annotations module renamed to java.xml.ws.annotation?

[Guillaume Smet]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 13/02/2017 16:58, Guillaume Smet wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I agree that @Generated is awkward but I haven't suggested removing it.
>
>
> What do you suggest then? As far as I understood you, you were suggesting
> removing the module in Java 10 so the @Generated annotation would also be
> gone? Or did I misunderstand?
>
> That is the proposal. If it goes ahead then it means that tools that rely
> on these annotations in the JDK would need to deploy the standalone version
> on the class path or as a module on the module path.
>

Yeah, so basically, it would end up with
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jmh/rev/d74b2861222c .

I don't think it's the best possible outcome for this useful annotation.

-- 
Guillaume