Being able to add @Named to an EJBs... or any annotation anywhere

When I create an EJB with Forge with the following command :

ejb-new-bean --named MyService

I get the following :

@Stateless
@LocalBean
public class MyService implements Serializable

In some cases, I would need to add an extra @Named annotation. Several ways to do it. On the EJB command itself, we could add a parameter :

ejb-new-bean --named MyService --addNamed

But I think it would be good to have something more generic that could be used anywhere. We could use the same logic as constraint-add (that adds any kind of constraint on any Entity) and have something like

cdi-add-qualifier --qualifier Named --target org.app.service.MyService
// or on a property, which could be useful
cdi-add-qualifier --qualifier Named --onProperty myProp
cdi-add-qualifier --qualifier Named --onMethod myMethod

Or something even more generic would be to use the Java command

java-add-annotation --annotation javax.inject.Named --target org.app.service.MyService
java-add-annotation --annotation javax.inject.Named --target org.app.service.MyService --onProperty myProp
java-add-annotation --annotation javax.inject.Named --target org.app.service.MyService --onMethod myMethod
java-add-annotation --annotation javax.inject.Named --onProperty myProp
java-add-annotation --annotation javax.inject.Named --onMethod myMethod

Comments on the mailing list by Ivan

I think that java-add-annotation is a good command that we should have. But still it would be better to have also something more explicit for creating named beans and setting stereotypes. So, I think that the three levels of abstraction that Antonio described may be implemented. Well, at the end they will reuse one and the same code for adding annotation, so no repeating ourselves will occur.