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+Annotations
+===========
+
+
+The Annotations project is based on, and *almost* identical to the excellent [infomas AnnotationDetector](https://github.com/rmuller/infomas-asl).
+There were **major** changes to the API to provide for a way to easily extend the scanning functionality, hence it lives on it's own.
+
+
+The main features of this annotations scanning library:
+- scans the bytecode for annotation information, meaning classes do not have to be loaded by the JVM
+- small footprint
+- *extremely fast* performance
+- can scan the classpath, classloader, or specified location
+- uses the SLF4j logging interface
+
+- This is for cross-platform use, specifically - linux 32/64, mac 32/64, and windows 32/64. Java 6+
+
+
+
+Included is the README from the infomas-asl project, for ease of understanding functionality.
+
+
+
+
+
+# infomas-asl
+
+[](http://travis-ci.org/rmuller/infomas-asl)
+
+INFOMAS ASL contains all open sourced code from the INFOMAS PCM Application Suite. All code is licensed by the [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), so it can be used by both open source and commercial projects.
+
+The INFOMAS PCM Application Suite is a commercial Product Content Management (also known as PIM, Product Information Management) Application. For more information, visit http://www.xiam.nl.
+
+## Warning: API Change!!
+Starting version 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT the API has been changed considerably and several new features
+have been added. Do not worry, we did not sacrifice the unique selling points of this library:
+simple API, small footprint and great performance. Performance is even improved by about 10%!
+The library size increased from 16 kB to 20 kB.
+This version is not (yet) released to Maven Central, so if you disagree with some changes or
+have better ideas, please let us know!
+
+See (git) branche "release 3.1".
+
+Changes (3.1.0-SNAPSHOT):
++ More fluent API, builder style
++ Made API Java 8 friendly (using Functional interfaces / SAM's)
++ Added standard logging (using standard `java.util.logging`), removed DEBUG logging
++ Some efficiency improvements
++ Simplified API for standard use cases (see issue #7)
++ Added possibility to filter scanned classes based on the file name (see issue #11)
++ Possibility to report types, fields, methods and annotations as `java.lang.Class`, `java.lang.reflect.Field`, `java.lang.reflect.Method` and `java.lang.annotation.Annotation` (see issue #6)
+
+## Quick Facts
++ Simple builder style API
++ Very fast (on moderate hardware about 200 MB/s)!
++ Lightweight, no dependencies, only 20 kb jar
++ Language: Java 6 SE or better with Java 8 friendly API
++ Tested with Oracle JDK 6, 7, 8 and OpenJDK 6 and 7 (Last four VM's using
+ [Travis CI Server](https://travis-ci.org/))
++ OSGi Bundle artifact
++ Apache License, Version 2.0
++ Build System: Maven 3
++ Maven Artifacts are available from [Central Maven](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cinfomas)
++ [Project information generated by Maven](http://rmuller.github.io/infomas-asl/)
+
+## Modules
+Currently INFOMAS ASL contains the following modules:
+
++ annotation-detector
++ More to come ...
+
+### annotation-detector
+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
+(**no dependencies**, simple API, **20 kb jar file**) and **very fast**
+(fastest annotation detection library as far as I know).
+
+#### Maven configuration:
+
+``` xml
+
+ eu.infomas
+ annotation-detector
+ 3.0.4
+
+```
+
+#### Example Usage (3.0.x versions):
+Put the `annotation-detector-3.0.x.jar` on the class path. No other dependencies are required!
+You can either scan the complete class path or only scan specified packages or Files
+(see [JavaDoc](http://rmuller.github.io/infomas-asl/annotation-detector/apidocs/index.html)
+for more details).
+
+``` java
+// Scan all .class files on the class path
+// Report all .class files, with org.junit.Test annotated methods
+final MethodReporter reporter = new MethodReporter() {
+
+ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+ @Override
+ public Class[] annotations() {
+ return new Class[]{Test.class};
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void reportMethodAnnotation(Class annotation,
+ String className, String methodName) {
+ // do something
+ }
+
+};
+final AnnotationDetector cf = new AnnotationDetector(reporter);
+cf.detect();
+```
+
+That's all!
+
+#### Example Usage (3.1.x versions):
+Put the `annotation-detector-3.1.x.jar` on the class path. No other dependencies are required!
+You can either scan the complete class path or only scan specified packages or Files
+(see [JavaDoc](http://rmuller.github.io/infomas-asl/annotation-detector/apidocs/index.html)
+for more details).
+
+``` java
+// Get a List with all classes annotated with @RuntimeVisibleTestAnnotation (Java 8 syntax)
+List> types = AnnotationDetector.scanClassPath()
+ .forAnnotations(RuntimeVisibleTestAnnotation.class)
+ .collect(AnnotationDetector::getType);
+
+ assertEquals(1, types.size());
+ assertSame(NewApiTest.class, types.get(0));
+
+// Get a List with all methods annotated with @RuntimeVisibleTestAnnotation, excluding
+// files ending with "Test.class" in the "eu.infomas" package and subpackages (Java 8 syntax)
+List methods = AnnotationDetector.scanClassPath("eu.infomas") // or: scanFiles(File... files)
+ .forAnnotations(RuntimeVisibleTestAnnotation.class) // one or more annotations
+ .on(ElementType.METHOD) // optional, default ElementType.TYPE. One ore more element types
+ .filter((File dir, String name) -> !name.endsWith("Test.class")) // optional, default all *.class files
+ .collect(AnnotationDetector::getMethod);
+
+ assertEquals(1, methods.size());
+ assertEquals(void.class, methods.get(0).getReturnType());
+```
+
+Even simpler, isn't it?
+
+## License
+
+Copyright (c) 2011 - 2014 XIAM Solutions B.V.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+[](https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/224392?ref=Tiny)
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