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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:08:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: An annotation utility I thought we would have
From: Benson Margulies <bimargulies@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Kulp <dkulp@apache.org>
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Doesn't help with methods, only with classes. But that still is less
code to write than nothing at all.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Kulp <dkulp@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:48:45 AM Benson Margulies wrote:
>> I'm a bit surprised that org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.utils.AnnotationUtils
>> does not have a method that says:
>>
>> "Here's a method and an annotation. If the method has the annotation,
>> return it. Otherwise, go to the containing class, and it's parents, in
>> search of it."
>>
>> Is there something I'm missing which would make this a bad idea?
>
> Probably something useful to add to ReflectionUtil.
>
> That said, you should also ask yourself if =C2=A0the annotation itself ju=
st have
> @Inherited on it and whether that would be enough or not?
>
>
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> Daniel Kulp
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