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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8009267

Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in public AnnotatedElement implementations

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • P4
    • 8
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    • core-libs
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    • b82
    • generic
    • generic
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      The change in JDK-8007113 made AnnotatedElement.isDefaultMethod a default method. This allowed numerous concrete implementation of the same logic to be removed. However, with the current behavior of javac in JDK 8 under sources levels before 8, this has de facto side effect of removing isAnnotationPresent from classes that implemented it in JDK 5/6/7, potentially causing compatibility issues for parties doing cross compiles *without* setting the bootclasspath as recommend. See

      http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-February/008387.html

      for one example.

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