On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Rob Heittman <[email protected]>wrote:

> ...my only *strong* requirement, that the annotation based solution must
> remain a voluntary choice and not the only way to get things done.  It
> should remain possible to achieve whatever annotations can achieve in a
> non-annotation way.  This allows the basic API outline to work in places
> where annotations are not available or work differently enough to cause
> friction (pre-1.5 JVM backports, GWT, API ports to other languages, Scala
> ...)  It is OK with me if the non-annotation approach requires verbosity or
> heavy lifting, it just needs to exist.
>

Isn't that currently the case with the 1.2 branch? (Does GWT not support
annotations yet? I thought it did.)

It would be best if the non-annotation approach used the same terminology as
the annotations, and I think that's not the case right now.

--tim

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