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Question

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

Answer 1

As a complementary, you can use @ComponentScan to use in annotation way.

It's also described at spring.io

Configures component scanning directives for use with @Configuration classes. Provides support parallel with Spring XML's element.

One thing to note, if you're using Spring Boot, the @Configuration and @ComponentScan can be implied by using @SpringBootApplication annotation.