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Java EE development has been packed with lots of metadata since day one. Things have changed a lot over times and we have been provided with more elegant solutions. I don’t want to go deeply into the ongoing debate on Annotations versus XML but rather go one step back and discuss metadata on a more conceptual level. What is metadata? Wikipedia names “data about data” and further explains: In data processing, metadata is definitional data that provides information about or documentation of other...