Where do I put my XML beans in a Spring Boot application?

Question

I\'m getting back into Spring (currently v4). It\'s all wonderful now with @SpringBootApplication and the other annotations but all the documentation seems to f

Answer 1

As long as you're starting with a base @Configuration class to begin with, which it maybe sounds like you are with @SpringBootApplication, you can use the @ImportResource annotation to include an XML configuration file as well.

@SpringBootApplication
@ImportResource("classpath:spring-sftp-config.xml")
public class SpringConfiguration {
  //
}