| Specifies a declaration priority for an element method.
The main reason is to be able to group
SubmissionHandler annotations
together with the related
FileProperty ,
ParamProperty and
SubmissionBeanProperty annotations.
The priority is provided as an array of integers. Each array element is
compared in the natural order of the integer values, but a rightmost array
element is less important than a leftmost array element.
For example:
{1} < {1,1} < {1,2} < {2} < {3} < {3,1}
This allows you to for example use the first array element to identify
the submissions, and the secone one to indicate which other methods belong
to those submissions.
When two methods have the same priority, they will be ordered
alphabetically according to their method name.
Methods without a priority are always processed before methods that have
one. This is important because it allows methods without a priority to be
added to a
Submission annotation that has been provided for the class.
author:
Geert Bevin (gbevin[remove] at uwyn dot com)
version:
$Revision: 3634 $
since:
1.5 |