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

I'm not sure you can exclude packages explicitly with an , but I bet using a regex filter would effectively get you there:

To make it annotation-based, you'd annotate each class you wanted excluded for integration tests with something like @com.example.annotation.ExcludedFromITests. Then the component-scan would look like:

That's clearer because now you've documented in the source code itself that the class is not intended to be included in an application context for integration tests.