The class files and ASM give us access to annotations. The "hard" part of this feature, is that we need a way to represent annotation values symbolically. This adds significant API surface to the symbol API and it should probably stay @Experimental when PMD 7 is released.
Another complication is that the annotation values are easy to parse with ASM, but for symbols based on the AST, resolving those values requires name resolution. This introduces a dependency cycle between the name resolution and the symbol resolution pass. The cycle can be broken by resolving annotations lazily.
Branch: I think this one. I don't think ast-based annotations are supported yet in this branch.
This issue was split off from #2701
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