Annotations:hype or not?

3月23号,jcp发布了JSR 250: Common Annotations for the JavaTM Platform early draft review(http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=250),引发了tss的一场规模不大不小的讨论(http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=32833),其中一条reply让人感觉很有意思:
SpringFramework的Rod Johnson的一条reply说:
Hani ???????
Posted by: Rod Johnson on March 24, 2005 in response to Message #163144 1 replies in this thread
Talking of membership, my application to join the JSR-250 expert group
when it was established (last August or September I think) was rejected.
Rgds
Rod
然后又有个简短的回应:
And?
这个and,我理解的意思是: 那又如何呢?或者,那又说明什么呢?

如果说JSR 250还主要是针对J2EE的,那么下面的针对J2SE的"is evil"系列的关于annotation新文章竟又牵出了DomainObject/ServiceObject以及贫血模型的议题:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-toolbox.html

不仅仅是用到语言方面,annotation现在还想到Validity Constraints方面试一把:http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=32725
下面的评论有一条非常的尖刻:
Yet another stupid idea. Now is the time for annotation hype and everybody
will try to use it, properly or not.

在公元2005年的今天,annotation的确应该算是一个超级炒冷饭,那么,是不是象评论中说的那样,有人
Just invent something, spread the word and hope you will get famous呢?我们拭目以待.