DO NOT REPLY [Bug 41660] - Fields in Annotations and AnnotationEntry are inaccessible to subclasses

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[email protected] changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Fields in Annotations and   |Fields in Annotations and
                   |AnnotationEntry are private,|AnnotationEntry are
                   |should be protected         |inaccessible to subclasses




------- Additional Comments From [email protected]  2007-09-15 03:09 -------
I found another example of why this bug needs to be fixed:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=775449

Note that Mathias has created two entirely new types of annotations 
(RuntimeVisibleLocalVariableAnnotations and RuntimeInvisibleLocalVariableAnnotations). Naturally, one 
might want to use BCEL to read these annotations from a class file, but that's currently impossible. 
Unless this bug is fixed, BCEL is effectively hard-coded for the standard annotation names.



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