Sweet.  Very much what I was looking for.  May also create a set of java 5
annotations mirroring these.

Rex

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Mark Hobson <markhob...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 November 2010 16:30, Rex Hoffman <r...@e-hoffman.org> wrote:
> > My thoughts exactly on the annotation ie. hosted in a generic context.
>  The
> > concern I have is the number of useful open source projects that expose
> > interfaces that clients are not required to implement.  Ultimately since
> > this style of checking is primarily used by the devs of the project, I
> can
> > have them define the annotation, and whether it marks an interface as
> > "client implements", or "client does not implement".  Those might not be
> the
> > best names for the annotation, as it really would mean 'Client implements
> it
> > and my code will break binary compatibility, by calling it at runtime".
>
> Note that Eclipse's PDE has Javadoc tags for these notions:
>
>
> http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/reference/api-tooling/api_javadoc_tags.htm
>
> Mark
>
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