Customising EntityListener Annotation

[skitching]

I have an EntityListener that I wish to apply to quite a few entity classes to do standard auditing/logging of database changes.

Rather than do

 @EntityListener("example.Auditor")
 class User {...}

I would like to create a specialisation of EntityListener to do:

 @Audited
 class User {...}

while having exactly the same effect (@postpersist etc. get called on the example.Auditor class).

However from my (shaky) knowledge of annotations I can't do:

 public @interface Audited extends EntityListener {
 public String value() default "example.Auditor";
 }

Is there any other way to create a custom annotation that JBoss will recognise as being equivalent to EntityListener?

Thanks

[epbernard]

An annotation is not extendable but we are thinking of

@EntityListener("example.Auditor")
public @interface Audited {
}

either as a standard or specific JBoss extension

[skitching]

That proposal would be perfect. I'll keep my fingers crossed it becomes part of the standard :-)

[epbernard]

Don't cross your fingers, do something [e-mail] :-)