Positioning of Beehive/JSR-175 annotations relative to Apache commons-attributes
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Key: BEEHIVE-74
URL: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE-74
Project: Beehive
Type: Improvement
Components: Documentation
Versions: V1Alpha
Environment: FAQ pages
Reporter: Michael Merz
Assigned to: Steve Hanson
Priority: Minor
Fix For: V1Alpha
Can we add a bullet item to the FAQ section that explains the position of
Beehive (and its use of JSR-175 annotations) relative to commons-attributes.
This seems to be a repeating theme on the list. [Apache's commons-attributes
provide non-standard "language extensions" with goals similar to JSR-175
annotations for JDKs older than 1.5.]
The answer -- distilled from previous discussions -- being that all of the
existing Beehive code depends on JDK 1.5 anyway (use of generics,etc.) and that
the programming model is fundamentally based on JSR 175 annotations.
Consequently, alternative support for commons-attributes (and older JDKs) is
not a goal for Beehive.
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