heh, ok. that was mean to be sent to me. some notes for one of my JavaOne talks!
Nothing secret about it, just completely out of context. :) Disregard :) -David On Sep 30, 2011, at 6:07 PM, David Blevins wrote: > The ability to override annotations without having to express the linkage to > the classes that use those annotations. > > 1. meta-data in xml > - overriding java classes > - hard to maintain the relationship between classes and config > - redundant config > > 2. annotation meta-data > - easy to maintain the relationship between classes and config > - overriding java classes > - redundant config in both annotation and xml > > 3. meta-annotations with annotation-level override > - easy to maintain the relationship between "config" and classes > - overriding annotations, not classes > - extremely brief config in both annotation and xml > > >
