@ComponentScan

Learn how does the Spring search for beans found in different packages.

We'll cover the following

@SpringBootApplication
- @ComponentScan for specific package
Include and exclude filters
- Filter types

Spring does a component scan to search for the beans that it manages. In a Spring application, the @ComponentScan annotation without any argument tells Spring to scan the current package as well as any sub-packages that might exist. Spring detects all classes marked with the @Component, @Repository, @Service, and @Controller annotations during component scan.

`@SpringBootApplication`

In a Spring application, @ComponentScan is used along with the @Configuration annotation. In a Spring Boot application, component scan happens implicitly. The @SpringBootApplication annotation is a combination of three annotations:

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan

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@ComponentScan

`@SpringBootApplication`