Attributes, or Meta Info, has been around in various libraries for a while. The first foray into it that I can recall was with none other than the Phoenix code at Avalon. That said, Java 1.5 has a version of keeping meta info that has a slightly different syntax than any of the dedicated libraries support. If there is any way to use a library that supports Java 1.5 meta info as it is declared and used, then our users won't have to change when they use these attributes in their own code. This is a very important point as changes to user code is far more reaching than changes to our code.
I am only vaguely familiar with the offerings, but we now have a spec for the Java 1.5 attributes. Perhaps, if we have any control or
influence with a library, we can get them to support syntax that is
similar.
Theres no stable released project that uses a jdk1.5-like model for attributes (and only one semi-developed one). And there is no direct compatibility that I am aware of (though this may have changed in the last few months).
It would be a lot of work to adapt a toolkit that reads and writes jdk1.5 attributes but I am not sure it will happen. jdk1.5 is just too close.
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