Implementing Spring-like Classpath Scanning in Android

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:53:36 -0600

One of the things that Spring 2.5 introduced back in 2007 was component scanning, a feature which removed the need for XML bean configuration and instead allowed developers to declare their beans using Java annotations. Rather than this:

We can do this:

It’s a pretty simple idea since Java makes it very easy to introspectively check a class’s annotations at runtime through its reflection API. Spring’s component scan feature also allows you to specify the base package(s) to scan for beans.

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Implementing Spring-like Classpath Scanning in Android