Exclude subpackages from Spring autowiring?

Question

Is there a simple way to exclude a package / sub-package from autowiring in Spring 3.1?

E.g., if I wanted to include a component scan with a base package of co

Answer 1

One thing that seems to work for me is this:

@ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = {SomeTypeInYourPackage.class}, resourcePattern = "*.class")

Or in XML:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.example" resource-pattern="*.class"/>

This overrides the default resourcePattern which is "**/*.class".

This would seem like the most type-safe way to ONLY include your base package since that resourcePattern would always be the same and relative to your base package.

Answer 2

You can also include specific package and excludes them like :

Include and exclude (both)

 @SpringBootApplication
        (
                scanBasePackages = {
                        "com.package1",
                        "com.package2"
                },
                exclude = {org.springframework.boot.sample.class}
        )

JUST Exclude

@SpringBootApplication(exclude= {com.package1.class})
public class MySpringConfiguration {}

Answer 3

I am using @ComponentScan as follows for the same use case. This is the same as BenSchro10's XML answer but this uses annotations. Both use a filter with type=AspectJ

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jersey.JerseyAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jms.JmsAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jmx.JmxAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.FilterType;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = { "com.example" },
    excludeFilters = @ComponentScan.Filter(type = FilterType.ASPECTJ, pattern = "com.example.ignore.*"))
public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}