The first in a series of articles exploring what's new in Spring 2.5: annotation support for dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath and lifecycle methods.

You could use the @Bean annotation to designate a method that would serve the purpose of creating a bean to be autowired. Listing 11 shows a simple Service component.

Spring Boot's @ConfigurationProperties annotation The next step is to create a class that will be decorated with the Spring Boot @ConfigurationProperties and Spring @Component annotations. This class ...