A quality @Qualifier
Sometimes, teh Twitterz is an amazing place. Just last week I spent some time helping clarify the behavior of Spring's @Qualifier
annotation, which is both older than JSR 330 and offers a richer superset of JSR 330's @Qualifier
annotation. These misguided few seemed to be under the impression that Spring's annotation didn't offer the same degree of type-safety as the JSR 330 annotation. I don't know if it's because they simply hadn't read up on the support (which is fairly new, since it's only been around since 2007), or if it's because they work for companies that make their money if you…