What's the difference between @Component, @Repository & @Service annotations in Spring?

Question

Can @Component, @Repository and @Service annotations be used interchangeably in Spring or do they provide any particular functionality besides acting as a notation device?

Answer 1

all these annotations are type of stereo type type of annotation,the difference between these three annotations are

• If we add the @Component then it tells the role of class is a component class it means it is a class consisting some logic,but it does not tell whether a class containing a specifically business or persistence or controller logic so we don't use directly this @Component annotation
• If we add @Service annotation then it tells that a role of class consisting business logic
• If we add @Repository on top of class then it tells that a class consisting persistence logic
• Here @Component is a base annotation for @Service,@Repository and @Controller annotations

for example

package com.spring.anno;
@Service
public class TestBean
{
    public void m1()
    {
       //business code
    }
}

package com.spring.anno;
@Repository
public class TestBean
{
    public void update()
    {
       //persistence code
    }
}

• whenever we adds the @Service or @Repositroy or @Controller annotation by default @Component annotation is going to existence on top of the class