Updates: Status: Invalid Comment #2 on issue 611 by anquetil...(a)gmail.com: VerveineJ does not export all Annotations http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/detail?id=611 It seems this is due to JDT's name resolution (again, see issue #638) JDT does not "record" an annotation instance unless it knows about the AnnotationType. So do get all annotation instances, one would need to put in verveineJ classpath the path to where the required annotations are defined. I could get the various JUnit annotations that way. For the spring annotation, I don't have the jar here to test.