There are **major** changes to the API to provide for a way to easily extend the scanning functionality, hence it lives here on it's own.
This library can be used to scan (part of) the class path for annotated classes, methods or instance variables. Main advantages of this library compared with similar solutions are: light weight (simple API, **20 kb jar file**) and **very fast** (fastest annotation detection library as far as I know).
There is a hard dependency in the POM file for the utilities library, which is an extremely small subset of a much larger library; including only what is *necessary* for this particular project to function.
This project is **kept in sync** with the utilities library, so "jar hell" is not an issue. Please note that the util library (in it's entirety) is not added since there are **many** dependencies that are not *necessary* for this project. No reason to require a massive amount of dependencies for one or two classes/methods.