November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
22h 47m
English
CHAPTER 3
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Spring Annotation Driven Core Tasks
In this chapter, you’ll learn about Spring’s annotation driven tasks. Both annotation driven tasks and regular tasks — like the ones in the previous chapter — can achieve the same end results. The only difference between these types of tasks is how you setup an application and its POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects).
Annotations are declarations added to Java source code to associate configurations with a class or method. The general syntax for Java annotations is the @ symbol, followed by the annotation name and optional parameters inside parenthesis (e.g., @Component("sequenceGenerator")).
This means ...