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

Instead of using reflection directly, you can make a lot easier for you by using AOP libraries from Google Guice. AOP is a common way for implementing cross-cutting concerns of an application, such as logging/tracing, transaction handling or permission checking.

You can read more about it here: https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/AOP