Difference between and

Question

I\'m learning Spring 3 and I don\'t seem to grasp the functionality behind and .

Answer 1

I found this nice summary of which annotations are picked up by which declarations. By studying it you will find that recognizes a superset of annotations recognized by , namely:

• @Component, @Service, @Repository, @Controller, @Endpoint
• @Configuration, @Bean, @Lazy, @Scope, @Order, @Primary, @Profile, @DependsOn, @Import, @ImportResource

As you can see logically extends with CLASSPATH component scanning and Java @Configuration features.