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

Spring boot ideal concept is avoid xml file. but if you want to keep xml bean, you can just add @ImportResource("classPath:beanFileName.xml").

I would recommend remove the spring-sftp-config.xml file. And, convert this file to spring annotation based bean. So, whatever class has been created as bean. Just write @Service or @Component annotation before class name. for example:

XML based:

Annotation:

@Service or @Component
class Employee{
}

And, add @ComponentScan("Give the package name"). This is the best approach.