JSR-269 Annotation Processing

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:59:40 -0400

I’ve been contemplating compile time bytecode manipulation for the Object Mapper Framework for a while now. Compile time instrumentation of classes seems to be a better approach and does away a whole lot of class loading issues, especially in OSGI environments. In any case, I remembered Project Lombok and reading about JSR-269, which was introduced with Java 1.6. It’s an API that allows you to plug custom annotation processors into javac.

After experimenting and reading a bit, here is my reading list:

Annotation on ilikeorangutans

JSR-269 Annotation Processing