Re: [aspectj-users] Access to annotation values through reflection

["Andy Clement" <andrew.clement@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is no magic in AspectJ, so yes you can reach the same things
through regular reflection on Java5.  As policed by AspectJ, the
annotations needs runtime retention to be accessible through
reflection when the code is executing.

Andy.

On 22/06/06, Jon S. Baekken <jbaekken@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> As I understand it, all context that can be exposed via a pointcut,
> could just as well be accessed via the reflective API (i.e.
> thisJoinPoint etc). Is this equally true for annotations and
> annotation values using @this, @target, @annotation etc? I suppose
> you can get some of it using e.g.
>
> thisJoinPoint.getClass().getAnnotations();
>
> But is there also things one cannot get?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Jon
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