Hi Alan, On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> The name is unfortunate, a woeful choice, esp. in the context of Java SE > and JDK where most of annotations are just not relevant. This is what lead > to the defining the subset for JAX-WS. > > Anyway, the proposal is to deprecate this module in Java SE 9 and > hopefully remove it in the future, Java SE 10 if possible. That is for JSR > 379 and the JSR for Java SE 10 to decide of course. > So basically, your position is that we should update all the Java tooling out there to remove the usage of the @Generated annotation? Because I don't think introducing a dependency to the JSR 250 API jar everywhere is a good thing. If so, as mentioned by David, it would be nice to provide something else as it's considered a useful marker and is used by a lot of tools. And even if we do so, the transition will be chaotic to say the least. -- Guillaume
