ISSUE 201: @Remotable can only apply to a Class/Interface but statements insection 8 of Java POJO spec contradict this

[David Booz <booz@us.ibm.com>]

http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/JAVA-201

Dave Booz
STSM, BPM and SCA Architecture
Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC and SCA-J TC
"Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093  or  8-295-6093
e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com


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  |Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>                                                                                                            |
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  |"OASIS Java" <sca-j@lists.oasis-open.org>                                                                                                         |
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  |07/27/2010 02:33 AM                                                                                                                               |
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  |[sca-j] [NEW ISSUE] @Remotable can only apply to a Class/Interface but statements in section 8 of Java POJO spec contradict this                  |
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Target:  sca-javaci-1.1-spec-cd02-rev1.doc

Description:

@Remotable annotation is declared to be valid on a Class/Interface only:

@Target(TYPE)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Remotable {

However, wording in Section 8 of the CD02 Rev1 of the Java POJO
specification states:

    remotable attribute of <interface.java> child element is omitted unless
the interface class has no
    @Remotable annotation and there is a @Remotable annotation on the
field, setter method or
    constructor parameter, in which case the <interface.java> element has
remotable="true".

This is a contradiction, since the text implies that @Remotable annotation
can apply to:
- a Field
- a parameter of a setter method or constructor

Proposal:

Change the definition of the @Remotable annotation to permit it to apply to
Fields and to method
parameters:


@Target(TYPE, FIELD, PARAMETER)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Remotable {


Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
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Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com






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