fyi: please check [1] before you answer. [2] contains documentation for the AnnotationBuilder and [2a] contains the code for the BeanBuilders.
the basic concept: Builder classes for creating beans based on an AnnotatedType, and modifying the metadata of that AnnotatedType, also in the case of AnnotationBuilder, a class for creating "store" or set of annotations to be used in (re)defining or adding to metadata for an AnnotatedType please send +1, +0 or -1 because... for the basic idea as well as the basic concept. if there are >basic< objections, please also add them to [3] Gerhard, Mark and Antoine have already given their +1 to the builders, with Gerhard suggesting NarrowingBeanBuilder should be merged into BeanBuilder. [1] http://markmail.org/message/7yefspfuvtz4jvmp [2] http://docs.jboss.org/seam/3/3.1.0.CR1/reference/en-US/html/solder-annotationutilities.html [2a] https://github.com/seam/solder/tree/develop/impl/src/main/java/org/jboss/solder/bean [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DeltaSpike/SE+Feature+Ranking -- Jason Porter http://lightguard-jp.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/lightguardjp Software Engineer Open Source Advocate Author of Seam Catch - Next Generation Java Exception Handling PGP key id: 926CCFF5 PGP key available at: keyserver.net, pgp.mit.edu
