--- a/langtools/src/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/SimpleAnnotationValueVisitor8.java	Wed Jan 23 13:27:24 2013 -0800
+++ b/langtools/src/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/SimpleAnnotationValueVisitor8.java	Wed Jan 23 20:11:07 2013 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@
  * behavior for the visit method in question.  When the new visitor is
  * introduced, all or portions of this visitor may be deprecated.
  *
+ * <p>Note that adding a default implementation of a new visit method
+ * in a visitor class will occur instead of adding a <em>default
+ * method</em> directly in the visitor interface since a Java SE 8
+ * language feature cannot be used to this version of the API since
+ * this version is required to be runnable on Java SE 7
+ * implementations.  Future versions of the API that are only required
+ * to run on Java SE 8 and later may take advantage of default methods
+ * in this situation.
+ *
  * @param <R> the return type of this visitor's methods
  * @param <P> the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's methods.
  *