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

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/13/2017 11:30 AM, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
>> - even as a temporary workaround, it's really weird to have to require a module
>> named java.xml.ws.annotation for that. It does not really make sense from an
>> end user perspective.
>
> the module name reflect the fact that it's a part of jax-ws and not annotations that you can use for other things.

And here is the problem: these are JSR 250 annotations and I guarantee 
you that >99% of Java users don't know (or care) why they were 
introduced in to the platform.  The fact that they came in as part of 
JAX-WS cannot possibly be less relevant to their modern presence in the 
JDK.  Trying to force people to care (by putting the annotations under 
an otherwise obscure module identifier) is neither helpful nor useful to 
just about anyone; no amount of pretending is going to convince anyone 
that these annotations belong to JAX-WS and not JSR 250.

Nothing in this discussion has changed (at least) my position: the 
classes cannot be removed in the Java 9 time frame; JSR 250 should have 
its own identity regardless of why it was originally introduced; if it 
is to be removed later then there should be a platform replacement for 
@Generated in java.lang.annotation that is ideally introduced now so 
that there is an overlapping transition period.
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- DML