Hi Gunnar, Please take a look at JDK-8010679 'Clarify "present" and annotation ordering in Core Reflection for Annotations' [*].
Best regards, -Yuri [*] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8010679 -----Original Message----- From: core-libs-dev [mailto:core-libs-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Gunnar Morling Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 08:14 PM To: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Guaranteed order of annotations? 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
