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

You can also use @SpringBootApplication, which according to Spring documentation does the same functionality as the following three annotations: @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration @ComponentScan in one annotation.

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