GeoAPI

Jody Garnett a écrit :
>>     @UML(identifier="conditional", obligation=CONDITIONAL, specification=ISO_19115)
>>     CONDITIONAL,
> I get the following error:
>> Cannot reference a field before it is defined   
>>  geoapi/src/main/java/org/opengis/annotation    Obligation.java    line 30
> Which seems fair; but I am not sure enough of how annotations work to 
> make the call one way or another on this. Can you use an annotation to 
> annotate its own definition?

It work well with Sun's compiler (both JDK 5 and 6)...

We could comment it out for Eclipse users, but we would need to remember it and
maybe uncomment before each deploy (which means that deploy should be made with
Sun's compiler).

What do you think?

	Martin

Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
>> Which seems fair; but I am not sure enough of how annotations work to 
>> make the call one way or another on this. Can you use an annotation to 
>> annotate its own definition?
>>     
> It work well with Sun's compiler (both JDK 5 and 6)...
>
> We could comment it out for Eclipse users, but we would need to remember it and
> maybe uncomment before each deploy (which means that deploy should be made with
> Sun's compiler).
>
> What do you think?
>   
I think we should check exactly what the limitations are on annotations; 
are we allowed to use an annotation
on itself?

If not I am a little bit stuck; it would not be the first time the 
Eclipse compiler was more strict that javac; but
last time it was because eclipse was being correct.

Cheers,
Jody