[jboss-dev] Improving scanning performance

[Bill Burke]

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.
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Bill Burke
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