[BCEL-96] Fields in Annotations and AnnotationEntry are inaccessible to subclasses

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0
• Component/s: Main
• External issue URL: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41660
• External issue ID: 41660
• Assignee: Apache Commons Developers
• Reporter: Trevor Harmon
• Created: 20/Feb/07 00:48
• Updated: 07/Dec/23 21:04
• Resolved: 10/Jan/10 11:26

Description

I am using the new annotation support in the BCEL trunk to write a utility for processing custom
annotations. This required extending the Annotations and AnnotationEntry classes, and the subclasses I
created needed to access the fields in the superclasses. Unfortunately, this wasn't possible because
these fields have private access. They should instead have protected access.