Scanning Java annotations at runtime [closed]

Answer 1

Is it too late to answer. I would say, its better to go by Libraries like ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider or like Scannotations

But even after somebody wants to try some hands on it with classLoader, I have written some on my own to print the annotations from classes in a package:

public class ElementScanner {

public void scanElements(){
    try {
    //Get the package name from configuration file
    String packageName = readConfig();

    //Load the classLoader which loads this class.
    ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();

    //Change the package structure to directory structure
    String packagePath  = packageName.replace('.', '/');
    URL urls = classLoader.getResource(packagePath);

    //Get all the class files in the specified URL Path.
    File folder = new File(urls.getPath());
    File[] classes = folder.listFiles();

    int size = classes.length;
    List> classList = new ArrayList>();

    for(int i=0;i repoClass;
        repoClass = Class.forName(classNamePath);
        Annotation[] annotations = repoClass.getAnnotations();
        for(int j =0;j

And in config File, you put the package name and unmarshall it to a class .