Can't get @Component to be inherited in Spring?

Question

In my project there\'s a common base class that all client classes extend. This has an @Autowired field that needs to be injected by Hibernate. These are all grouped together in

Answer 1

I've dealt with this issue by creating my own annotation (heritable) and then customizing classpath scanning:

@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Component 
@Inherited
public @interface BusinessService {
}

Spring configuration look likes this:

from Spring doc 5.10.3 Using filters to customize scanning