Hi, Is there any order guaranteed in which an element's annotations are returned by AnnotatedElement#getDeclaredAnnotations()? Specifically, is this the order in which the annotations are given in the source code?
Section 9.7.5. of the JLS ("Multiple Annotations of the Same Type") makes a statement of the source order being considered by the array of the implicit container annotation created for a repeatable annotation ("[...] all the base annotations in the left-to-right order in which they appeared in the context"). But I couldn't find any authoritative description on the ordering behaviour of getDeclaredAnnotations(). Should we assume that we cannot rely on the order in the source? Thanks for any pointers, --Gunnar