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Hi Guys,
I have a simple question about annotations @Component and @Service.
What is the difference between them, and what exactly @Service mean ? how I understand they both register a Component as Bean in Spring Context ..
and also can anybody provide me with example of creating/using/registering nice "Services" with @Service :)
Thank you
My understanding is that
- @Component indicates any Spring-managed component, whereas
- @Service is a specialisation of @Component to indicate a component in your service layer.
Other specialisations of @Component are
- @Repository to indicate a DAO
- @Controller in the presentation layer
I don't think there's much practical difference between these - but perhaps in exception translation, or if you were to write your own AOP interceptors to handle them differently.
The relevant section of the Reference Guide is Section 3.
http://static.springframework.org/sp...spath-scanning
Check this section of the Spring reference guide.
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