[SPR-9375] - Supporting reading annotations from the class of the object.

[nachogiljaldo]

Hope this time is better.

Thanks for your support!

[cbeams]

Thanks Jose, please take a look again at the contributor guidelines, particularly with regard to:

1. signing the SpringSource CLA and indicating that you have done so here in the pull request comment thread
2. formatting of the commit comment
3. submitting pull requests from a topic branch (e.g. named SPR-9375) as opposed to submitting from your master branch
4. using your complete real name in Author: metadata (instead of the current value of jose <naranja82@gmail.com>)

Note that with the exception of 3, you do not need to create a new pull request to correct these issues, and don't worry about the branch name this time around.

Thanks.