Spring support for @Controller given by vs

Question

I\'ve been researching what additional capabilities we have when using the mvc:annotation-driven tag and I\'m having a difficult time digesting the results, especially in re

Answer 1

• Case 1(annotation-driven)

  This is Enabling Spring annotations tag. All the annotations such as @Controller, @Service, @Autowired etc.. can be used. This doesn't creates a bean, but find the the annotations, and spring creates corresponding bean for that class if found annotation(such as @Controller, @Service, @Autowired etc..) .
  
  

• Case 2(component-scan)

  Spring will scan the package (and subpackages) of the classes specified in declaration and creates bean for it.