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Bug 320067

Summary:	Specify scope of an annotation
Product:	[Technology] Tigerstripe	Reporter:	Marc FLAUW <marc.flauw>
Component:	Annotations	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tigerstripe.annotations-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	etalelover, nmehrega
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	0.5M0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Marc FLAUW

2010-07-16 02:09:10 EDT

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Tigerstripe Annotation Framework should provide a capability to specify the scope of every annotation. This is similar to the scoping of stereotypes. 
Need to include a UI part to specify the scope and enforcement at run time.

This is a critical enhancement as otherwise annotations won't be useable for TIP. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Justin

2010-08-19 07:45:40 EDT

Hi,

Please note that TMF Shared Interface Infrastructure team has recently decided the team will not use the Annotation Framework in next release of tooling, that is, the team will keep using stereotypes. Now the issue can have low priority from the view of the team.

best regards,
Jinzhai

Comment 2 Navid Mehregani

2011-08-11 17:02:47 EDT

It already is possible to specify annotation scope via the 'target' element of a 'definition' for org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotation.core.annotationType extension point.  Please see this documentation for more details: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Define_Tigerstripe_Annotations

Specifically see excerpt:
 "Note that we have defined specific target types for these 2 annotations ('IModelComponent'), which means only Tigerstripe Model Components will be "annotable" with these 2 Annotation Types. "

Examples are also available in Tigerstripe CVS (see org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotation.example.person).