Hi,

This question is not really related to Hibernate or EJB3, but I don't know where to post this else.

I'm in need of a framework or example to retrieve all classes which are annotated with a specific annotation class (e.g. a @Entity or @CustomAnnotation). Something like findClasses(Class annotation);

As Hibernate will something similar to get all @Entities, I might find some advise on this forum?

Regards,
Marcel

If you have all of your code in one tree at build time (ie, not dynamically discovered) I would recommend using the Java5 Annotations Preprocessor Tool (APT) to create a class that can return this. This way you can create a java file that has all the needed information as part of an ant task and include it into your build.

This way you can also search for @CustomAnnotations as well.

Check for the EJB code base and esp JarVisitor