does reflection also work with annotations and entities maintained by container

[shwetank singh]

Thanks everyone!
perhaps i've another question for something similar..
does reflection also work with annotations and entities maintained by container. sorry i am unable to quote an example here for container managed entities with injected resources..i am still working on what i am trying to say here

[Winston Gutkowski]

shwetank singh wrote:does reflection also work with annotations and entities maintained by container. sorry i am unable to quote an example here for container managed entities with injected resources..i am still working on what i am trying to say here...

Well until then I'd have a look at AnnotatedElement if I were you. This page also seems to have an example of processing them, but I'm not sure how good/useful it is.

Winston

[Rob Spoor]

The annotations need to be marked with @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) or they cannot be found through reflection.