[jboss-dev] Improving scanning performance

I suggested this a year or two ago: * You should have a AnnotationScanner deployer that scans jars for annotations and puts an annotation database somewhere in memory that other deployers can reference. (This might already exist, I don't know). * If a file META-INF/no.scan exists in a jar, then don't scan the file. This allows libraries to exclude themselves from scanning. * If a file META-INF/scan.only exists it will contain a newline delimited list of class names to scan. Only scan those class names. -- Bill Burke JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://bill.burkecentral.com