Difference between and

Question

I\'m learning Spring 3 and I don\'t seem to grasp the functionality behind and .

Answer 1

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This tells Spring that I am going to use Annotated beans as spring bean and those would be wired through @Autowired annotation, instead of declaring in spring config xml file.

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This tells Spring container, where to start searching those annotated beans. Here spring will search all sub packages of the base package.