On 13/02/17 14:34, Alan Bateman wrote: > The small subset of the JSR-250 defined "Common Annotations" that you > see in Java SE is part of the web services stack that was added in Java > SE 6. If it weren't for JAX-WS then these annotations would have no > business being in Java SE or the JDK.
Well, okay, but they have been advertised as "Common Annotations" for ten years now. It's a bit unconvincing to say "Yes, but we didn't really mean it." Andrew.
