JF,
Excellent point! Although we might imagine that someone would want to
reuse the @Description annotation for another purpose where FIELD would
be valid, I don't think they would gain much doing that versus creating
their own @Description with the semantics they want. So we should remove
FIELD from the @Target, at least until we do use it for something.
Thanks,
Éamonn McManus JMX Spec Lead http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/
Jean-Francois Denise wrote:
Hello Eamonn,
I mainly focus on new Annotations and impact on public classes. I
noticed that Description Annotation targets FIELD. I was not able to
find a case where the FIELD target is needed. But perhaps that I
missed something there.
JF.
Eamonn McManus wrote:
I'm looking for reviewers for this fairly substantial change to the
JMX API and implementation in JDK7. I need at least one reviewer with
commit rights to openjdk. Any other reviewers will be acknowledged in
the changeset message.
The context:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/2007/08/defining_mbeans.html
The specification changes:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/6323980-specdiff.html
The code changes:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/6323980-webrev.zip
Thanks,
