Enhancing @Stateless, @Stateful and @Singleton annotations with ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE

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currently the @Stateless, @Stateful annotations look like:

@Target(value =

{ElementType.TYPE}

) @Retention(value = RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) public @interface Stateless {}

I would like to extend the @Target of all @Stateless, @Stateful, @Singleton beans to:

@Target(value =

{ElementType.TYPE,ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE}

)

(add ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE)

This would allow to use EJB meta-annotations in CDI @Stereotype definition

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Reported by abien

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mvatkina said: This is being discussed in the Java EE platform EG: http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/lists/jsr342-experts/archive/2012-08/message/20

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mvatkina said: Reopening to move to java-ee project

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ldemichiel said: As discussed in the expert group, we would like to address the topic of expanded "stereotype"/"metatype" support in Java EE 8.

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This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JAVAEE_SPEC-12