configuration by XML.</p>
 
 <p><a href="Annotated.html" title="interface in jakarta.enterprise.inject.spi"><code>Annotated</code></a>
 and its subtypes allow a portable extension to specify 
 metadata that overrides the annotations that exist on a 
 bean class. The portable extension is responsible for 
 implementing the interfaces, thereby exposing the metadata 
 to the container. The container must use the operations of 
 <code>Annotated</code> and its subinterfaces to discover program
 element types and