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At 12:31 AM 3/27/2004 -0800, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
+1 from me. sounds like a good candidate for jakarta commons. please investigate working with
commons' attributes projects http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/attributes/ as well.
-- dims
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Patrick > > I'd personally love to see JAM available as a separate package > somewhere with support for both a JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5 version. It > sounds great! I'd also love to see some experiment done on a JDK 1.4 > runtime metadata support so that, say, as part of the build process we > can turn doclet tags into some generated classes so JAM could > introspect the annotations at runtime in a JDK 1.5-style way. > > Then the next step would be for us to be able to use AOP-style > introductions to generate the annotations using pointcuts (e.g. rules > to define where the annotations should go) so we don't have to litter > our code with doclet tags that we could infer using some simple rules > in our build systems (e.g. design patterns, naming conventions and so > forth - allowing the use of doclet tags to overload any such rules). > > Once we get there I'd be a very happy chap :) > > > On 27 Mar 2004, at 03:23, Patrick Calahan wrote: > > Hello everyone. I am a committer on Xml-Beans, another project > > currently in the Apache Incubator. As part of my work there, I have > > developed an API for representing Java types and their associated > > metadata which I believe would be of general use to the community. > > > > The API is called 'JAM' - the Java API for Metadata. On the surface, > > it looks quite a bit like Reflection or the Doclet API, but it affords > > a greater level of flexibility and convenience, and in particular > > provides solutions for a number of thorny problems posed by JSR175. > > > > I have had a few discussions with some folks on > > [email protected] about possibly spinning JAM up as an > > independent project from xbeans. It was suggested that it would be > > useful to test the waters in some other projects such as Geronimo to > > see if JAM would indeed be generally useful. So, here I am testing. > > :) > > > > Anyway, if you want more gory details, I have temporarily posted some > > white papers and the API docs here: > > > > http://www.pcal.net/jam > > > > Any feedback is more than welcome. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Patrick > > > > > > James > ------- > http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ >
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