I have got an annotation with about 10 parameters, all optional. But in case you use them, it may look like this:
@myAnnotation(oneFlag anotherFlag parameter="value").
Splitting the one annotation into several, the example would look like this:
@oneFlag @anotherFlag @parameter("value");
Which "good java style" criterial exist for this?
I suspect it depends how cohesive the annotations are. For example:
Bad (difficult to tell which annotations relate to each other):
@Transaction(Isolation.DEFAULT)
@TransactionRollbackFor(Bar.class)
@ReadOnly // Not actually related to transactions
public class Foo { }
Good:
@Transactional(isolation=Isolation.DEFAULT,rollbackFor=Bar.class)
@ReadOnly
public class Foo { }
