--- In novajug@yahoogroups.com, David Bock <dbock@...> wrote:
> I would be much happier if a future version of the Java
> language/libraries got rid of marker interfaces in favor of
> annotations. That wouldbe one less rung in the ladder a Java newbie
> has to climb.

i doubt that annotations would make it easier to understand the "marker"
concept. they're nice feature, but it's a new thing to understand for a newbie,
and it makes the whole language thing more complex and less intuitive to me. i
used annotations where there were no annotations in Java, and found them useful
for injecting things into the flow of execution without disturbing the flow.
however, if they disturb it, and change behavior of a code, then it makes it
difficult to understand the logic just be looking at the code. it's all more
complexity.