How to scan classes for annotations?

Question

I have a plain jane servlets web application, and some of my classes have the following annotations:

@Controller
@RequestMapping(name = \"/blog/\")
public cl         


        

Answer 1

Scanning for annotations is very difficult. You actually have to process all classpath locations and try to find files that correspond to Java classes (*.class).

I strongly suggest to use a framework that provides such functionality. You could for example have a look at Scannotation.