jmx-dev Review request: 6323980: Annotations to simplify MBean development

[Eamonn McManus]

JF,

Excellent point! Although we might imagine that someone would want to 
reuse the @Description annotation for another purpose where FIELD would 
be valid, I don't think they would gain much doing that versus creating 
their own @Description with the semantics they want. So we should remove 
FIELD from the @Target, at least until we do use it for something.

Thanks,

Éamonn McManus   JMX Spec Lead   http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/



Jean-Francois Denise wrote:
> Hello Eamonn,
> I mainly focus on new Annotations and impact on public classes. I 
> noticed that Description Annotation targets FIELD. I was not able to 
> find a case where the FIELD target is needed. But perhaps that I 
> missed something there.
>
> JF.
>
>
> Eamonn McManus wrote:
>> I'm looking for reviewers for this fairly substantial change to the 
>> JMX API and implementation in JDK7. I need at least one reviewer with 
>> commit rights to openjdk. Any other reviewers will be acknowledged in 
>> the changeset message.
>>
>> The context: 
>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/2007/08/defining_mbeans.html 
>>
>>
>> The specification changes: 
>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/6323980-specdiff.html
>>
>> The code changes: 
>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/6323980-webrev.zip
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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