I ran across package-info.java on pg. 190 of SiA book.
Here is an example of this file, from org.jboss.seam.core package:
/**
* A set of Seam components that implement Seam.
* This is where the magic happens.
*/
@Namespace(value="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core", prefix="org.jboss.seam.core")
@AutoCreate
package org.jboss.seam.core;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.AutoCreate;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Namespace;
Annotations that can be applied to the package element are referred to as package-level annotations. An annotation with ElementType.PACKAGE as one of its targets is a package-level annotation. Package-level annotations are placed in a package-info.java file. This file should contain only the package statement, preceded by annotations. When the compiler encounters package-info.java file, it will create a synthetic interface, package-name.package-info. The interface is called synthetic because it is introduced by the compiler and does not have a corresponding construct in the source code. This synthetic interface makes it possible to access package-level annotations at runtime.
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Is it considered good/bad practice to use package-info.java in our Seam apps? What are the adv/disadv of using this file per package?
For example, let's say you wanted all classes in a particular package to have @AutoCreate; can you use package-info.java to annotate at the package level rather than annotating multiple classes in that package? Must you have @Namespace as well?
The Seam core packages all have them apparently, but really the underlying reason there is to establish a link b/n an XML namespace and a Java package
in the context of the component descriptor...
btw, what spec or Java SE version did this package-info.java originate from?
