Question

Basically, I have objects that need to become entities, but the code is generated and I can’t touch it (thus I can’t use annotations). I’d like to list them in an xml config. However, I’d also like spring to autodiscover and autowire the respective daos. How would I go about setting up my configuration?

Answer 1

You can configure the component scan how you like (btw: you can have several component scans)

<context:component-scan base-package="org.example" use-default-filters="false">
    <context:include-filter type="regex" expression=".*Dao"/>
</context:component-scan>

This example will create beans for all classes thet match the regex and are located within the base package.

@See Spring Reference Chapter 3.10.3 Using filters to customize scanning