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Use case: I was trying to migrate a Spring project to Java EE 7. So I need rules to change things like: @Scope("request") -> @RequestScoped @Scope("view") -> @ViewAccessScoped However, this is currently not possible with the current infrastructure. It should be simple to implement, because I did it in a hackish way: <? import java.lang.reflect.Field; import java.lang.reflect.Method; ?> <? Method getSingleVariable; Method getLeaf; Method getValue; private Method getSingleVariable() throws Exception { if (getSingleVariable != null) { return getSingleVariable; } getSingleVariable = Context.class.getDeclaredMethod("getSingleVariable", Variable.class); getSingleVariable.setAccessible(true); return getSingleVariable; } private Method getLeaf(Object treePath) throws Exception { if (getLeaf != null) { return getLeaf; } return getLeaf = treePath.getClass().getMethod("getLeaf"); } private Method getValue(Object tree) throws Exception { if (getValue != null) { return getValue; } return getValue = tree.getClass().getMethod("getValue"); } private String literal(Variable v) throws Exception { Object treePath = getSingleVariable().invoke(context, v); Object tree = getLeaf(treePath).invoke(treePath); return (String)getValue(tree).invoke(tree); } public boolean isView(Variable v) throws Exception { return "view".equals(literal(v)); } public boolean isRequest(Variable v) throws Exception { return "request".equals(literal(v)); } public boolean isSession(Variable v) throws Exception { return "session".equals(literal(v)); } public boolean isApplication(Variable v) throws Exception { return "application".equals(literal(v)); } ?> This is of course as hackish as it can get, so we definitely need a permanent solution ;-) Product Version = NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 20150701-686afc345584) Operating System = Windows 8 version 6.2 running on amd64 Java; VM; Vendor = 1.8.0_40 Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.40-b25