**[Andy Wilkinson](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=awilkinson)** opened **[SPR-12325](https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-12325?redirect=false)** and commented This is a follow-on from #16493, triggered by [this bug report against Spring Boot](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/1696). PR showing how this could be further improved to follow. --- **Affects:** 4.0.7, 4.1.1 **Issue Links:** - #16493 AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation fails with poor diagnostics if it encounters an Annotation that references an unloadable class - #16934 Regression: Commons Logging setup in AnnotationUtils causes early initialization of logging system - #16960 Favor more locally declared composed annotations over interface annotations in AnnotationUtils - #18364 Defensive error reporting when ConfigurationClassParser introspects declared methods via StandardAnnotationMetadata - #16962 Improve diagnostics when OrderUtils.getPriority encounters an ArrayStoreException during annotation introspection - #16995 Improve diagnostics when AnnotationAttributesReadingVisitor triggers an ArrayStoreException from Class.getAnnotations() - #17487 AnnotatedElementUtils should leniently ignore TypeNotPresentExceptions (just like AnnotationUtils) **Referenced from:** commits https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/e16f21c28113583d6284499d73b6ad2287529ebe, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/47dde91763ab09d4e9f82dcd22fe3e2127c0f08d, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/716916b281d25cc843b4b98530f4550f7f6c0ca8 **Backported to:** [4.0.8](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/milestone/120?closed=1)
Andy Wilkinson opened SPR-12325 and commented
This is a follow-on from #16493, triggered by this bug report against Spring Boot.
PR showing how this could be further improved to follow.
Affects: 4.0.7, 4.1.1
Issue Links:
Referenced from: commits e16f21c, 47dde91, 716916b
Backported to: 4.0.8