On Jul 19, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Lukas Krejci <lkrejci@redhat.com> wrote:

I think that idea is worth exploring, but I wanted to put it out there very
soon to see if others share my view :)

I went ahead and started designing the annotations, so if you feel like you
are interested and would like to shape the future of RHQ, please chime in to

https://github.com/metlos/rhq-plugin-annotation-processor

Note that I originally based this work on what has already been done in the
helpers/pluginAnnotations module of RHQ but I decided to split it off into a
completely separate repository because this needs to go through some serious
design and prototyping before it can become part of the official codebase of
RHQ.

I am only a little familiar with JBoss Forge[1] but would it be worth exploring the possibility of implementing this as a Forge plugin?

[1] http://forge.jboss.org