Ian Rogers wrote: > I'm interested in adding these optimization to the Jikes RVM, but > clearly the annotations need adding to Classpath. I was > wondering what kind of response this would get?
I've been thinking about using annotations for similar things and one of the things that I think makes this very viable is that it is easy to "ignore" the annotations by changing their RetentionPolicy. So if someone doesn't want to bloat their class files with a particular annotation, simply change that annotation's RetentionPolicy to SOURCE. One thing that this does suggest is that might be a good idea to keep all these annotations in the same package (or tree of sub packages). Regards, Jeroen
