public static List findClassesThatExtend(String[] paths,
    Class[] superClasses) throws IOException 
{
        return findClassesThatExtend(paths, superClasses, false);
}

Convenience method for findClassesThatExtend(Class[], boolean) with the option to include inner classes in the search set to false.

 public static List findClassesThatExtend(String[] strPathsOrJars,
    Class[] superClasses,
    boolean innerClasses) throws IOException 
{
        return findClassesThatExtend(strPathsOrJars,superClasses,innerClasses,null,null);
}

Find classes in the provided path(s)/jar(s) that extend the class(es).

 public static List findClassesThatExtend(String[] strPathsOrJars,
    Class[] superClasses,
    boolean innerClasses,
    String contains,
    String notContains) throws IOException 
{
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            for (int i = 0; i <  superClasses.length ; i++){
                log.debug("superclass: "+superClasses[i].getName());
            }
        }
        // Find all jars in the search path
        strPathsOrJars = addJarsInPath(strPathsOrJars);
        for (int k = 0; k <  strPathsOrJars.length; k++) {
            strPathsOrJars[k] = fixPathEntry(strPathsOrJars[k]);
            if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                log.debug("strPathsOrJars : " + strPathsOrJars[k]);
            }
        }
        // Now eliminate any classpath entries that do not "match" the search
        List listPaths = getClasspathMatches(strPathsOrJars);
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            Iterator tIter = listPaths.iterator();
            while (tIter.hasNext()) {
                log.debug("listPaths : " + tIter.next());
            }
        }
        Set listClasses = new FilterTreeSet(superClasses, innerClasses, contains, notContains);
        // first get all the classes
        findClassesInPaths(listPaths, listClasses);
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            log.debug("listClasses.size()="+listClasses.size());
            Iterator tIter = listClasses.iterator();
            while (tIter.hasNext()) {
                log.debug("listClasses : " + tIter.next());
            }
        }
//        // Now keep only the required classes
//        Set subClassList = findAllSubclasses(superClasses, listClasses, innerClasses);
//        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
//            log.debug("subClassList.size()="+subClassList.size());
//            Iterator tIter = subClassList.iterator();
//            while (tIter.hasNext()) {
//                log.debug("subClassList : " + tIter.next());
//            }
//        }
        return new ArrayList(listClasses);//subClassList);
}

Find classes in the provided path(s)/jar(s) that extend the class(es).