find all classes and interfaces a class extends or implements recursively

Question

I was wondering if there was an easy way of determining the complete list of Types that a Java class extends or implements recursively?

for instance:

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Answer 1

I have once implemented similiar mechanism using asm on some ShrinkWrap branch https://github.com/mmatloka/shrinkwrap/commit/39d5c3aa63a9bb85e6d7b68782879ca10cca273b . The issue is sometimes class might use object which is an interface implementation not mentioned in other file so it still can fail during deployment.

From what I know some time ago official position was rather not to include such feature inside of the ShrinkWrap, but rather rely on tooling e.g. JBoss Tools, where should be a feature allowing for recursive class additions.