Support @LoadBalanced Annotation On Classes

Hi all,

I was trying to have my RestTemplate (customized with some methods) also aware of load balancing options. In order to do that, I tried to go with "@LoadBalanced" options.
Everything works, the only problem I got is that the annotation is not applicable to class, so that instead of doing:

@LoadBalanced
@Service
public class CredentialsTemplate extends RestTemplate {

    public List<CredentialsRemoteResource> getCredentials(String username) {
    //my custom method
    }
}

I had to do something like this:

@Configuration
public class RestConfiguration {

    @LoadBalanced
    @Bean
    public CredentialsTemplate credentialsTemplate() {
        return new CredentialsTemplate();
    }
}

only to put the annotation. Is (maybe) possible to extend the annotation so that it can be used together the service annotation?

Start by locating the @LoadBalanced annotation and the processing that currently handles it on @Bean methods, then compare that path with the @Service and RestTemplate examples in the issue. Done means a custom RestTemplate subclass can use @LoadBalanced at class level alongside @Service and receives the same load-balancing behavior.