Re: [Xdoclet-user] Move to anotations?

[John L. <jle...@gm...>]

Konstantin Priblouda wrote:
> This is a good questions, asked on a wrong
> list. As this list is used for XDoclet-1,  which is not
> really active anymore. ( Nevertheess, all active developers hopefully
> lurk here ) 
>
> What is your idea of annotations usage?
>
> regards,
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> --- On Sun, 7/12/09, John Leonard <jle...@gm...> wrote:
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>> From: John Leonard <jle...@gm...>
>> Subject: [Xdoclet-user] Move to anotations?
>> To: xdo...@li...
>> Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 3:10 PM
>> In the future, will xdoclet use
>> annotations rather than javadoc tags?
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Well, annotations and Javadoc tags both serve the same purpose - they 
add descriptive information to *.java files which can be used by various 
software processors in different ways.

However annotations constitute a change in the Java language. Javac now 
understands them and can make them available during run-time, for instance.

Since there are 2 ways of doing the same thing it seems that developers, 
and Java developers as a whole, would make better use of their time and 
money if they focused on one. Since Javadoc tags are an ‘ad hoc’ 
solution and Annotations are a part of the language, I would think that 
the future for this kind of development would revolve around Annotations.

John L.