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Stereotype Annotations

Explore how stereotype annotations in Spring help you declare beans specific to application layers such as web, service, and data. Understand the roles of @Controller, @Service, @Repository, and how they enhance bean management, enable specialized functionality, and support features like AOP and exception handling.

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Beans can be declared using the @Component annotation and the <bean> tag. But there are other ways to define beans. We will look at some of them in this lesson.

Beans can be declared using the @Bean annotation in a configuration class or by using the @Controller, @Service, and @Repository annotations. These annotations are used at different layers of an enterprise application. A typical application has the following ...

Application layering pictorial representation
Application layering pictorial representation

The web or UI layer interacts with the client program, the service layer ...