Method references in annotations?

Paul Benedict pbenedict at apache.org
Mon Aug 1 08:30:20 PDT 2011


Project Lambda is introducing method references. That's a feature I
desire because one of my gripes with JPA (or any annotations that
relate to properties) is the necessity to spell-out the property
names.

Example:
@OneToMany(cascade=ALL, mappedBy="customer")

Would something like this now be possible (provided the annotation was
refactored)?
@OneToMany(cascade=ALL, mappedBy=#SomeClass.getCustomer)

Paul


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