Using @ComponentScan or with only one class

Question

I\'m maintaining a project with two set of main packages, the project is using Spring and Spring MVC, one of these packages contains several controllers and is scanned using

Answer 1

In addition to the method described by Emerson Farrugia there is a less verbose solution which has been supported since Spring Framework 4.2 as mentioned in the documentation here.

As of Spring Framework 4.2, @Import also supports references regular component classes, analogous to the AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.register method. This is particularly useful if you want to avoid component scanning, by using a few configuration classes as entry points to explicitly define all your components.

So your example would simply become:

@Import(YourClass.class)