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

For Spring 4 I use the following
(I am posting it as the question is 4 years old and more people use Spring 4 than Spring 3.1):

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.example", 
  excludeFilters = @Filter(type=FilterType.REGEX,pattern="com\\.example\\.ignore\\..*")) 
public class RootConfig {
    // ...
}