Move annotations to a separate Maven module

I'm using Trails with a model that is also used by another application. Since I use some Trails annotations, the Maven module that contains the entities must have a dependency on trails-core. This introduces lots of transitive dependencies that are not used by the other application. Of course I can use exclusions to get exactly the dependencies I want, but this is fairly ugly.

Ideally the annotations defined by Trails should be in their own Maven artifact that has no dependencies on other Trails modules. I think this could be easily done, except for an issue with @DescriptorAnnotation which links the annotation to the annotation handler (which obviously should stay in trails-core). This could be solved by using the class name instead of the class.