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

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/14/2017 05:52 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2017/2/13 9:17:47 -0800, Guillaume Smet <guillaume at hibernate.org>:
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:10 PM, 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 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.
>
> I agree.
>
> The `@Generated` annotation falls outside the original charter of the
> `java.lang.annotation` package, which was meant for annotations that
> directly support the language's annotation facility, but we already
> added `@Native` in SE 8, so let's add `@Generated` in SE 9 as David
> suggests and encourage people to use it when running on this and later
> releases.
>
> The fact that `@Generated` is so widely used is new information to some
> of us, so thanks for bringing it up.

I'm glad to hear it... thanks!

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