[jboss-cvs] Re: jboss-cvs-commits Digest, Vol 33, Issue 370

[Ales Justin]

>>> Last I looked, the AnnotationEnvironment ends up loading the classes, 
>>> so it is no use to AOP. We need all the metadata before any clases 
>>> are loaded
>>
>> It only loads annotations.
>> Which should be fine for AOP.
> 
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-deployers/trunk/deployers-spi/src/main/java/org/jboss/deployers/spi/annotations/AnnotationEnvironment.java 
> 
> Apart from
> boolean hasClassAnnotatedWith(String annotationName);
> all the methods seem to load up classes, e.g.
> Set<Element<Annotation, Class<?>>> classIsAnnotatedWith(String 
> annotationName);
> Set<Element<Annotation, Field>> classHasFieldAnnotatedWith(String 
> annotationName);
> 
> So if something is annotated with the annotations, it seems to load up 
> the Field, Method, Constructor & Class that has been annotated?

Where?

Not until you really need it,
that's why there is an Element class there,
which has the lazy notion.