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Does Spring implements its own way to scan the class in packages or does it use a external library like 'reflection':

https://github.com/ronmamo/reflections

danronmoon
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A bit of both. They use ASM for reading the class files, but use their own MetadataReader so they can offer a more flexible inheritance model for annotations than Java offers out of the box (in plain Java, annotations are only inherited from a super class. In Spring, they are also inherited from super interfaces and meta annotations).

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    Thanks,just what I was looking for. Now another question, can i use the internal `MetaReader` of Spring as any other library like `reflection`?, and, there is any articule about advantages of the differents `MetaReades's` libraries? – Jesus Hernandez Barrios Dec 12 '20 at 23:43