Prefer method.getAnnotation(…) over AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation(…).

The latter method is much much slower than the former and JpaQueryMethod.isModifyingQuery() is invoked for every query method execution.

src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/JpaQueryMethod.java

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class JpaQueryMethod extends QueryMethod {
     @Override
     protected boolean isModifyingQuery() {
 
-        return null != AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation(method, Modifying.class);
+        return null != method.getAnnotation(Modifying.class);
     }