Output of the program listed below should include type annotations in the AnnotatedType for the receiver type. Run the program found below in the 'source code' section of this bug report. STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM : However that bug report says (I think - I could be misinterpreting it) the fix made it into 1.8.0_20 b20. I'm guessing this one is closely related to (perhaps same root cause as) this bug: (This is the second bug I've found, and I've also found some omissions and filed two enhancement requests on this same topic.) Type annotations via core reflection, in general, seem quite busted in 1.8.0_20. Furthermore, the receiver type, though implicitly the first (synthesized) ctor argument for an inner class, differs in Java reflection from simply examining the first parameter (also available via reflection). It is not possible to access type annotations on type arguments on an inner class's receiver type. (uname reports: Darwin Kernel Version 13.3.0) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.20-b23, mixed mode) Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_20-b26)

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