Consideration on current annotations

[Marco Tedone]

It’s a pity that annotations can’t be extended, otherwise we could
have had a DefaultPattern as follows:

package org.jpatterns.core;

public @interface DefaultPattern {

Class[] participants() default {};

String comment() default “”;

}

And then any “sub-annotation in a pattern” could have just “extended
the above interface (I mean interface extends interface, don’t get me
wrong :-) )

[Dr Heinz M. Kabutz]

Yes, it's a pity. Maybe we can make a recommendation for Java 8 ... :-)

Regards

Heinz
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On 8/15/10 8:06 PM, Marco Tedone wrote:
> It�s a pity that annotations can�t be extended, otherwise we could

> have had a DefaultPattern as follows:
>
> package org.jpatterns.core;
>
> public @interface DefaultPattern {
>
> Class[] participants() default {};
>

> String comment() default ��;
>
> }
>
> And then any �sub-annotation in a pattern� could have just �extended
> the above interface (I mean interface extends interface, don�t get me
> wrong :-) )
>
>

[Riaan Cornelius]

At the current rate, that would probably be in about 2020...