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In NetBeans 5.5 a new API in j2ee/metadata has been introduced to allow to retrieve metadata expressed using Java annotations and to create models containing merged metadata from annotations and from XML deployment descriptors. A review will be needed for this API.
Part of this issue should be moving JMIGenerationUtil somewhere else, probably j2ee/utilities. It does not conceptually belong in j2ee/metadata.
This issue is obsolete now. An API review has already taken place for the new metadata model in 6.0 and the classes introduced in 5.5 in j2ee/metadata will be removed for 6.0.