The JLS makes extensive use of the term "member." Previous drafts of the Metadata spec defined the term "annotation member" in a way that differed subtly from existing uses of the term "member." The potential for confusion was great. The JLS maintainer notified the JSR-175 Expert Group that "[The term] member is well defined in the JLS and will stay so. This terminology will be changed, so it's best if you all come up with something else."

Therefore, the JSR-175 expert group decided to change the term "annnotation member" (resp. "annotation type member") to "annotation element" (resp. "annotation type element") throughout the JSR-175 spec. This affects several APIs. The main bug for this change is 5013441.

Several methods in the doclet API are affected; this bug tracks those changes:

public interface AnnotationDesc {
   MemberValuePair[] memberValues(); // **

   public interface MemberValuePair { //**
       AnnotationTypeMemberDoc member(); // **
   }
}

public interface AnnotationTypeDoc extends ClassDoc {
   AnnotationTypeMemberDoc[] members(); // **
}

public interface AnnotationTypeMemberDoc extends MethodDoc { // **
}

public interface Doc {
   boolean isAnnotationTypeMember(); // **
}