I don't think that JB annotations is a runtime dependency, we should need them only at compile time, no?
Sergi 2016-07-28 11:09 GMT+03:00 Anton Vinogradov <a...@apache.org>: > Igniters, > > As you may know we had only 2 dependencies at ignite-core: jcache and > ignite-shmen. > > IGNITE-3323 Get rid of copypasted JB annotations, use dependency instead. > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-3323> brings one more > dependency to org.jetbrains.annotations. > This solves problems for people using JB annotations at their projects. but > makes ignite-core less dependency-lightweight. > > JB annotaions are used to highlight null problems in IDE and provide some > understanding to users on whether null is allowed/possible in concrete > place. I doubt other products/frameworks use it much. > > But, do we really need them? As for me, we can replace all these > annotations by asserts. > > I propose to discontinue usage of jb annotation and replace them by > asserts. > > Thoughts? >
