of metadata annotations or, optionally, by means of a deployment descriptor.</p>

<h3>Associating an interceptor class with the target class</h3>

<p>An interceptor class may be associated with the target class or a method of the 
target class in several ways:</p>

<ul>
  <li>By annotating both the interceptor class and the target class with an 
  interceptor binding annotation. The set of 
  interceptor bindings for the interceptor are specified by annotating the interceptor 
  class with the binding types