Support for Common Annotations 1.1's javax.annotation.Resource.lookup() [SPR-13941]

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The Alchemist opened SPR-13941 and commented

It looks like Resource.lookup() is ignored. Since lookup() is a "standard" location and mappedName() is platform-specific, perhaps support for lookup() would be preferable.

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Referenced from: commits b79e8a5

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Juergen Hoeller commented

The lookup() attribute was introduced as part of the Commons Annotations 1.1 revision in 2009, along with Java EE 6. It is not present in the JDK 6 version of the annotation that our support has been designed against back in 2007.

We'll try to support it with meaningful semantics as of Spring Framework 4.3. Thanks for raising this!

Juergen

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Juergen Hoeller commented

It seems that the cleanest semantics are essentially the same that we use for mappedName(): a straight JNDI lookup with the specified location. We'll have to reflectively check that attribute (since it is not present in Java 6 / Java EE 5 which we still support at runtime) but can otherwise treat it just like we treat mappedName() already.

Juergen