Recovering Annotations From a Class

Question

Hello,
I have to find out which annotations where used inside a class. The code I am using is a small twik version of the java annotation tutorial [http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html] .
My Test file is:
package annotationlogger.example;
@ClassPreamble (
   author = "Henry",
   date = "02/02/2011",
   currentRevision = 1,
   lastModified = "02/02/2011",
   lastModifiedBy = "Henry",
   reviewers = {"Alice", "Bob", "Cindy"} // Note array notation
class MyFoo {
    @MyTest protected int MyField;
    @Test public static void m1(@MyTest int I) { }
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static void m2() { }
    @Test public static void m3() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Boom");
    public static void m4() { }
    @Test public static void m5() { }
    public static void m6() { }
    @Test public static void m7() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Crash");
    public static void m8() { }
}My main code to acquire the annotation would be:
package annotationlogger.example;
import java.lang.annotation.*;
public class RunMyTests {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      Class TestClass = Class.forName("annotationlogger.example.MyFoo");
      Annotation[] A = TestClass.getAnnotations();
      System.out.println(A.length);
      for ( int i = 0; i<A.length; i++ ) {
          System.out.println(A);
I am using reflection on the Class.forName, because I want to be able to test any class without chaging the source code later on.
The problem is that the getAnnotations() method is returning no annotations. I stfw and the forums for a similar problem, but I couldnt find anything to help me.
Please if someone could give me some insight It would help me a lot.
P.S.: Sorry my bad english, it is not my first language.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Answer 1

833142 wrote:
I have to find out which annotations where used inside a class. The code I am using is a small tweak version of the [url http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html]java annotation tutorial.
package annotationlogger.example;
@ClassPreamble (
author = "Henry",
class MyFoo {
}I am using reflection on the Class.forName, because I want to be able to test any class without chaging the source code later on.
The problem is that the getAnnotations() method is returning no annotations. I stfw and the forums for a similar problem, but I couldnt find anything to help me.
Please if someone could give me some insight It would help me a lot.
[url http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html]java annotation tutorial at the bottom of the page
package annotationlogger.example;
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) // To make annotation information available at runtime
@ClassPreamble (
   author = "Henry",
class MyFoo {
}