[jdt-apt-dev] Question about JSR Annotations.

[Manish Bhargava <manishb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I am not sure if this is the correct
place to post my question but I want to do it anyways. Any feedback is
appreciated.

In order for me to introspect a Class
for annotations (say within a JDT listener code) how do I get hold of java.lang.Class
in order to call the new jsr 175 APIs. Presently at runtime within eclipse
there is no way of me getting a java.lang.Class from jdt IType.
I want to react to annotation changes (additions/removal etc) that user
enters while using the jdt editor. Should I be using AnnotationProcessor
for this? Does the process API on the AnnotationProcessor get called
only during a build?

Thanks in advance
-Manish

PS. I am having some what hard time
in getting the APTDemo to run as a plugin project. My runtime environment
does not recongnize the 2 annotations (DemoAnnotation and TypeGeneratingAnnotation)
defined at all. I do see demo plugin in the Preferences setting though.
Any ideas as to what am I missing? I have eclipse 3.1.1 and jre 5.0