Issue #2665992 by alexpott, klausi, heykarthikwithu, xjm, tstoeckler: @file is not required for classes, interfaces and traits

Issue #2600926 by benjy, mikeryan, phenaproxima, hussainweb, alvar0hurtad0: Allow annotations to inherit across namespaces

Issue #2468901 by Xano: Improve \Drupal\Component\Annotation\Plugin\Discovery\AnnotatedClassDiscovery documentation

Issue #2178795 by tim.plunkett, jlbellido, YesCT, Berdir, Xano: Allow DiscoveryInterface::getDefinition() to throw an exception for an invalid plugin.

Andreas Hennings authored Jan 04, 2014 and Angie Byron committed Apr 22, 2014

This affects class loading, plugin discovery and test discovery.

PSR-0 is still supported, and no module class files are moved yet.

Issue #2005716 by tim.plunkett, msonnabaum, dawehner, alexpott, effulgentsia: Promote EntityType to a domain object.

Issue #2065481 by EclipseGc, twistor: Fixed Make the interaction of the Annotation, Reflection & Plugin Discovery make sense.

Issue #1901390 by chx, sun: Enable StaticReflectionParser performance optimization to speed up Annotation parsing.

Issue #1614186 by RobLoach, tim.plunkett, msonnabaum, Crell, jhodgdon, Niklas Fiekas: Update coding standards for using 'native' PHP classes like stdClass in namespaced code.

Issue #1967420 by tim.plunkett, dawehner: Allow Core\AnnotatedClassDiscovery to pass all parameters to the constructor of Component\AnnotatedClassDiscovery.

Issue #1849752 by effulgentsia, Berdir: Abstract non-Drupal-specific parts of AnnotatedClassDiscovery into a Drupal\Component base class.

Issue #1778942 by yched, tstoeckler, andypost: Fixed Discovery::getDefinition() / getDefinitions() : inconsistent return values for 'no result.
git commit -am Issue

- Patch #1683644 by chx, EclipseGc, tim.plunkett, aspilicious, xjm, dawehner, effulgentsia: use Annotations for plugin discovery.