Avoiding hard-coded annotations such as below:

[Julien Martin]

Hello,

I would like to avoid the hard-coded annotation variable such as below:

@Table(name = "CALYONQA.TheTable")
public class etc...

Environment:
-J2ee 1.4 (web tier only, tomcat 5.5)
-J2se 5.0

I have a context param which is located in the web.xml and that I would like to use instead of the hard-coded name above.

Can anyone help?

Julien.

[Jim Yingst]

It sounds like you would need to modify the code that currently processes the annotation. Read the annotation, then check for a property that might override it, and use one or the other to do... whatever you were going to do with the annotation in the first place. Does that help?

If you can't alter the code that processes the annotations, you might instead use some sort of bytecode engineering like BCEL or ASM to alter the .class file before it's loaded, changing the annotation. That's somewhat more complicated though, so I prefer the first option if possible.
[ June 17, 2007: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]