ls-annotations VS jodd-json

I remember the days, when the Spring framework was advertised as a lightweight alternative to Enterprise java beans (ejb); now Spring outgrew the pretence of being lightweight, don't know when that happened. last year i got back to working with java and spring boot, and i was overwhelmed by the prevalence of annotations in the tool.

To cope with all this, i wrote this little project: https://github.com/MoserMichael/ls-annotations

It's a decompiler that is listing all annotations, so it becomes easier to grep a text file in order to detect the dependencies between annotations.

https://github.com/MoserMichael/ls-annotations wrote a tool that decompiles jdk byte code files and lists declarations (classes, functions, variables) with annotations only. You can also use it to find all classes/interfaces derived from a given class/inerface - and all the classes/interfaces derived from a given class/interface.

The tool uses the asm library to scan class files and to extract annotations. it can detect annotations with retention policy CLASS and RUNTIME. It can't detect annotations with retention policy SOURCE that are not put into bytecode, for example @Override is one of these.

Looks nice and clean. It does seem to be maintained by a single person (at least the JSON subproject [1]) which will be a major turn off for adoption by an "enterprise"

[1] https://github.com/oblac/jodd-json