Felix: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Future of the Maven SCR Plugin From: Felix Meschberger <fmesc...@adobe.com> To: dev@felix.apache.org <dev@felix.apache.org> Date: Mon 07 Nov 2011 09:01:26 AM CST > 1) can you make these 3 features part of "standard"? > Not in 4.3 but they remain on the plate for post-4.3. great!
> 2) why annotation retention should be "CLASS" and not "RUNTIME"? > Because we don't need them at runtime. The annotations are build-time > annotations used by build tooling. At runtime DS only looks at the XML files. > I am sure Carsten would prefer RUNTIME, :-) since you can use just JDK, no need for ASM, etc and you still have to load class inside compile class path for inheritance resolution thanks Andrei