dependency to scannotation

[Gerhard <ge...@gmail.com>]

hi @ all,

i talked to bill burke (the developer of scannotation). he told me that he
stopped maintaining scannotation.
that means he is looking for somebody who continues with the project.

imo:
since we won't get in bugfixes we should think about forking it (internally
or externally) or we should switch to a different classpath scanner.

regards,
gerhard

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Re: dependency to scannotation

[David Blevins <da...@visi.com>]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Gerhard <ge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi @ all,
>
> i talked to bill burke (the developer of scannotation). he told me that he
> stopped maintaining scannotation.
> that means he is looking for somebody who continues with the project.
>
> imo:
> since we won't get in bugfixes we should think about forking it (internally
> or externally) or we should switch to a different classpath scanner.

Just recently made some good updates to xbean-finder.  Haven't looked
at what it would take to switch, but would be happy to add anything we
need.

A couple of the changes make it possible to find all classes that are
assignable to a specific type. Was hoping we could use it to grab all
the @Inject points and then use those types to find all class files
that relate -- rather than loading all classes which is a big security
risk and uses a lot of perm gen space.  Had planned to do this in the
integration layer on the OpenEJB/Geronimo side, but maybe if it works,
we just want to do it right in OWB.

Open to thoughts.


-David