Spring Annotations

Context Configuration Annotations :

These annotations are used by Spring to guide creation and injection of beans

@Required	indicates that the affected bean property must be populated at configuration time	Method
@Autowired	Marks a constructor, field, setter method or config method as to be autowired by Spring's dependency injection facilities.	Constructor, Field, Method
@Inject	can be used in place of Spring's @Autowired. does not have a required property
@Qualifier	@Qualifier which takes a string property to discriminate among multiple injection candidates and can be placed on annotations as well as types, fields, methods, constructors, and parameters.	Field, Parameter, Type, Annotation Type
@Configurable	Marks a class as eligible for Spring-driven configuration	Type
@Order	Annotation that defines ordering	Type, Method, Field
@Scope	Specifies the scope of a bean, either singleton, prototype, request, session,or some custom scope.	Type

Spring Java Configuration :

@Configuration	Indicates that a class declares one or more Bean methods and may be processed by the Spring container to generate bean definitions	Type
@Bean	Indicates that a method produces a bean to be managed by the Spring container.	Method
@Import	allows for loading @Bean definitions from another configuration class:	Type
@ExternalValue	same as @Value annotation and use of Spring EL.	Method, Field
@ImportXml	allows for loading bean definitions from another xml	Type
@AnnotationDrivenConfig	enable the @Autowired annotation	Type
@ComponentScan	Spring's @Service and @Repository stereotype annotations are each meta-annotated with	Type
@AnnotationDrivenTx	Like Spring XML's <tx:annotation-driven> element, @AnnotationDrivenTx expects the presence of a bean named transactionManager	Type
@AspectJAutoProxy	detects any@Aspect beans and generates proxies as appropriate to weave the advice methods in those aspectsagainst other beans in the containe	Type
@MBeanExport	equivalent to Spring XML's <context:mbean-export/> element, JavaConfig provides the @MBeanExport annotation.	Type
@DependsOn	Beans on which the current bean depends.	Type
@Primary	indicates that a bean should be given preference when multiple candidates are qualified to autowire a single-valued dependency.	methods annotated with Bean.
@Lazy	Indicates whether a bean is to be lazily initialized.	Type
@ImportResource	Like @Import	Type, Method
@Async	Annotation that marks a method as a candidate for asynchronous execution. Can also be used at the type level, in which case all of the type's methods are considered as asynchronous.	Type

Stereotyping Annotations :

These annotations are used to stereotype classes with regard to the application tier that they belong to. Classes that are annotated with one of these annotations will automatically be registered in the Spring application context if <context:component-scan> is in the Spring XML configuration.

@Component	Generic stereotype annotation for any Spring-managed component.	Type
@Controller	Stereotypes a component as a Spring MVC controller	Type
@Repository	Stereotypes a component as a repository. Also indicates that SQLExceptions thrown from the component’s methods should be translated into Spring DataAccessExceptions.	Type
@Service	Stereotypes a component as a service	Type

Spring MVC Annotations:

These annotations were introduced in Spring 2.5 to make it easier to create Spring MVC applications,<context:component-scan> is required

@PathVariable	Annotation which indicates that a method parameter should be bound to a URItemplate variable. Supported for RequestMapping annotated handler methods in Servlet environments.	Parameter
@InitBinder	Annotation that identifies methods which initialize the WebDataBinder which will be used for populating command and form object arguments of annotated handler methods.	Method
@ModelAttribute	@ModelAttribute is a Spring-MVC specific annotation used for preparing the model data. It is also used to define the command object that would be bound with the HTTP request data. The annotation works only if the class is a Controller class. ModelAttribute can be applied on both methods as well as method-parameters. It accepts an optional "value", which indicates the name of the attribute. If no value is supplied to the annotation, then the value would be defaulted to the return type name in case of methods and parameter type name in case of method-parameters. The way Spring processes this annotation is, Before invoking the handler method, Spring invokes all the methods that have @ModelAttribute annotation. It adds the data returned by these methods to a temporary Map object. The data from this Map would be added to the final Model after the execution of the handler method.Then it prepares to invoke the the handler method. To invoke this method, it has to resolve the arguments. If the method has a parameter with @ModelAttribute, then it would search in the temporary Map object with the value of @ModelAttribute. If it finds, then the value from the Map is used for the handler method parameter.It it doesn't find it in the Map, then it checks if there is a SessionAttributes annotation applied on the controller with the given value. If the annotation is present, then the object is retrieved from the session and used for the handler method parameter. If the session doesn't contain the object despite of the @SessionAttributes, then an error is raised.If the object is not resolved through Map or @SessionAttribute, then it creates an instance of the parameter-type and passes it as the handler method parameter. Therefore, for it to create the instance, the parameter type should be a concrete-class-type (interfaces or abstract class types would again raise an error).Once the handler is executed, the parameters marked with @ModelAttributes are added to the Model.	Parameter Method
@RequestMapping	Maps a URL pattern and/or HTTP method to a method or controller .	Method, Type
@RequestParam	Binds a request parameter to a method parameter.	Parameter, Method
@SessionAttributes	Specifies that a model attribute should be stored in the session.	Type
@RequestHeader	Allows a method parameter to be bound to a request header	Parameter
@CookieValue	Allows a method parameter to be bound to the value of an HTTP cookie	Parameter
@ExceptionHandler		Method

Spring Validation Annotation :

@NumberFormat	This annotation allows either a number style or pattern to be specified	Field
@DateTimeFormat	format a java.util.Date as required	Field
@NotNull		Field
@Size		Field
@Min		Field
@Valid	The Validator instance invoked when a @Valid method argument is encountered may be configured	Parameter

Spring Expression Language (SpEL) :

@Value

Declares transactional boundaries and rules on a bean and/or its methods.

Method, Type

Transaction Annotations :

require <tx:annotation-driven>

@Transactional

Declares transactional boundaries and rules on a bean and/or its methods.

Method, Type

Aspect Annotations :

<aop:aspectj-autoproxy> required

@Aspect	Declares a class to be an aspect.	Type
@After	Declares a method to be called after a pointcut completes.	Method
@AfterReturning	Declares a method to be called after a pointcut returns successfully.	Method
@AfterThrowing	Declares a method to be called after a pointcut throws an exception.	Method
@Around	Declares a method that will wrap the pointcut.	Method
@Before	Declares a method to be called before proceeding to the pointcut.	Method
@DeclareParents	Declares that matching types should be given new parents,that is, it introduces new functionality into matching types.	Static Field
@Pointcut	the method serving as the pointcut signature must have a void return type. method must have an empty method body and must not have any throws clause . upported Pointcut Designators are execution,within,this, target, args, @target, @args,@within,@annotation	Method

JMX Annotations :

<context:mbean-export/> required

@ManagedAttribute	Used on a setter or getter method to indicate that the bean's property should be exposed as a MBean attribute	Method
@ManagedNotification	Indicates a JMX notification emitted by a bean.	Type
@ManagedNotifications	Indicates a JMX notifications emitted by a bean.	Type
@ManagedOperation	Specifies that a method should be exposed as a MBean operation.	Method
@ManagedOperationParameter	Used to provide a description for an operation parameter.	Method
@ManagedOperationParameters	Used to provide a descriptions for an operation parameter.	Method
@ManagedResource	Specifies that all instances of a class should be exposed a MBeans.	Type

JSR-250 ANOTATION :

@Resource	Spring also supports injection using the JSR-250 @Resource annotation on fields or bean property setter methods	Method,Field
@PostConstruct	indicates a method to be invoked after a bean has been created and dependency injection is complete. Used to perform any initialization work necessary.	Method
@PreDestroy	Indicates a method to be invoked just before a bean is removed from the Spring context. Used to perform any cleanup work necessary.	Method

Testing Annotations :

@AfterTransaction	Used to identify a method to be invoked after a transaction has completed.	Method
@BeforeTransaction	Used to identify a method to be invoked before a transaction starts.	Method
@ContextConfiguration	Configures a Spring application context for a test.	Type
@DirtiesContext	Indicates that a method dirties the Spring container and thus it must be rebuilt after the test completes.	Method
@ExpectedException	Indicates that the test method is expected to throw a specific exception. The test will fail if the exception is not thrown.	Method
@IfProfileValue	Indicates that the test class or method is enabled for a specific profile configuration.	Type, Method
@NotTransactional	Indicates that a test method must not execute in a transactional context.	Method
@ProfileValueSourceConfiguration	Identifies an implementation of a profile value source. The absence of this annotation cause profile values to be loaded from system properties	Method
@Repeat	Indicates that the test method must be repeated a specific number of times.	Method
@Rollback	Specifies whether or not the transaction for the annotated method should be rolled back or not.	Method
@TestExecutionListeners	Identifies zero or more test execution listeners for a test class.	Type
@Timed	Specifies a time limit for the test method. If the test does not complete before the time has expired, the test will fail.	Method
@TransactionConfiguration	Configures test classes for transactions, specifying the transaction manager and/or the default rollback rule for all test methods in a test class.	Type
@RunWith	specifies the Spring configuration to load for this test fixture	Type
@Test	Indicate test	Method