Hi Sten,

Sten Roger Sandvik schrieb:
> Yes, I will really try to create an initial version of this. Should I post a
> jira task with the patches as it's progressing? I'm in a project right now
> that is in desperate use for such a thing so I will probably have some
> initial code ready quite soon.

Yes, Jira would be great - best would be patches against the
maven-scr-plugin source tree. Remember to mark the patchs as "ok to be
included with Apache".

Thanks a lot !

Regards
Felix

> 
> BR,
> Sten Roger Sandvik
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sten,
>>
>> Sten Roger Sandvik schrieb:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I looked at the SCR maven plugin and see that it only supports javadoc
>>> attributes and not full Java 5 annotations. It would be really nice to
>>> support this in the plugin. I looked at other projects like Naked OSGi,
>> but
>>> did not like that it only supports Java 6 (and the new annotation
>> mirroring
>>> API).
>>>
>>> So my question is: Has anybody something like this in progress? Using
>> Java 5
>>> annotations instead of javadoc attributes?
>>> If not, I would really start looking into it. It seems to me that the
>>> current maven plugin can easily be fitted to include both "styles". Any
>>> comments on this?
>> I am not aware of any one currently working on it.
>>
>> In fact, we have been discussing this a few days ago. Basically the
>> problem is as follows: The outcome of the plugin would still have to be
>> the component declaration files. But the settings could as well be
>> defined by annotations instead of JavaDoc tags.
>>
>> And yes, I think, the plugin would certainly be able to cope with the
>> annotation style, too.
>>
>> If you would take a stab at it and provide a patch (however partial this
>> may be at first), it would certainly be welcomed.
>>
>> Regards
>> Felix
>>
>>> BR,
>>> Sten Roger Sandvik
>>>
> 

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