Java : programmatically determine all of the package names loaded on the classpath

Question

Any suggestions as to how to approach how I would find out a list of package names that exist on the current classpath?

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Answer 1

Give http://code.google.com/p/reflections/ a shot.

Reflections scans your classpath, indexes the metadata, allows you to query it on runtime and may save and collect that information for many modules within your project.