I've been working on annotations support in RIFE for a few days, and now that I'm testing them in real projects I stumbled into what seems like a major downer.

When a class is recompiled and hot-swapped, are annotations supposed to be hot-swapped also? I don't get any warnings from the JVM to indicate that something wasn't swapped correctly, but I don't seem to get updated annotations either.

Does anyone know if this is supposed to be supported?

Emmanuel Okyere is presenting RIFE at the JavaWUG's (Java Web User Group) sixteenth Birds-of-Feather (Meet up XVI) at the Oracle City of London offices on Friday, 17th March 2006.

His session from last month had some technical problems, so he's given the opportunity to have a go at it again. Even though his slides were garbeled, I liked his previous appearance a lot. If you're interested, you can take a look at the video recording, the atmosphere looks very friendly.

If you're in London next Friday, and are interested in RIFE, don't miss out on this event!