Hi,

I am using Glassfish 3.1 with included Weld 1.1.0 final and Jersey 1.5. I defined a simple Jersey resource class and a managed bean, both annotated with @Model. I am injecting the managed bean into the Jersey resource class, which works fine. Apart from @Model, the managed bean is also annotated with some custom annotation, retention is RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME.

Here is some simplistic code to demonstrate what I'm doing:

Managed Bean:

@Model
@MyAnnotation
public class MyManagedBean {
     
     public MyManagedBean() {
          // intentionally left blank
     }
}

Resource class:

@Path("myresource")
@Model
public class MyResource {

     @Inject
     private MyManagedBean myManagedBean;
          
     @GET
     @Path("/display")
     @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
     public String display() {
          return  Arrays.toString(myManagedBean.getClass().getAnnotations());
     }
}

Annotation:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface MyAnnotation {
}

However, it seems that the generated Weld client proxy for the managed bean does not include the annotations. For example, if I do a

myManagedBean.getClass().getAnnotations()

an empty array is returned. This does not seem to be limited to custom annotations, since also the @Model annotation is missing.

The only way I found to access the annotatons is to cast the managed bean to TargetInstanceProxy, and call getTargetClass() like that:

((org.jboss.interceptor.util.proxy.TargetInstanceProxy)myManagedBean).getTargetClass().getAnnotations()

Obviously this is nothing I want in my code. So, my question is:

• are the annotations removed on purpose? Why?


• is there any way to access them without using none-portable JBoss code / classes?

Thanks,

Hans