Now that we have annotations in java, is xdoclet legacy?

Question

I came accross the xdoclet project and see it enjoys/ed high popularity. So the question is, now that we have annotations in java: is xdoclet legacy?

Or is there som

Answer 1

Hopefully XDoclet is history. As has been pointed out, you need to include some kind of artifact from the provider of the annotation, usually some kind of api module. This only enforces the strong typing aspects that we're so used to in java, allowing all sorts of of automated tracking/tracing and proper tool support in all modern ide's.