Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-12889 and commented

As indicated by SWS-877, it would be good to defensively ignore TypeNotPresentException (and other annotation introspection exceptions}} in AnnotatedElementUtils as well, analogous to how we do it in AnnotationUtils already.

Affects: 4.1.6

Issue Links:

• SWS-877 Support @Repeatable in @PayloadRoot and @SoapAction
• AnnotationUtils provides poor diagnostics if getDeclaredAnnotations throws an exception [SPR-12325] #16930 AnnotationUtils provides poor diagnostics if getDeclaredAnnotations throws an exception
• Support package private annotations with AnnotationUtils [SPR-12858] #17456 Support package private annotations with AnnotationUtils
• Defensive error reporting when ConfigurationClassParser introspects declared methods via StandardAnnotationMetadata [SPR-13791] #18364 Defensive error reporting when ConfigurationClassParser introspects declared methods via StandardAnnotationMetadata