Find all annotated classes in a package using Spring

ClassScanner.java

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider;
import org.springframework.core.type.filter.AnnotationTypeFilter;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment;

public class ClassScanner {

  private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ClassScanner.class);

  public static Class<?>[] findAllAnnotatedClassesInPackage(String packageName,
      Class<? extends Annotation> clazz) {
    final List<Class<?>> result = new LinkedList<Class<?>>();
    final ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider provider =
        new ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider(true, new StandardServletEnvironment());
    provider.addIncludeFilter(new AnnotationTypeFilter(clazz));
    for (BeanDefinition beanDefinition : provider.findCandidateComponents(packageName)) {
      try {
        result.add(Class.forName(beanDefinition.getBeanClassName()));
      } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        logger.warn("Could not resolve class object for bean definition", e);
      }
    }
    return result.toArray(new Class<?>[result.size()]);
  }

}

Usage.java

Class<?>[] classes = ClassScanner
        .findAllAnnotatedClassesInPackage("org.acme.model.entities", Entity.class);