Question

is it possible to exclude a @Component annotated class?

i would like to exclude a special class from JUnit testing.

my project has a class xEventHandler annotated with @Component and i dont want spring to use this class while junit testing.

my ApplicationTestContext.xml looks like this:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.company">
...
<context:exclude-filter expression="com\.company\.xyz\.xEventHandler.java " type="regex"/>
...
</context:component-scan>

however, the class gets entered because of the @Component annotation(e.g. works, when i delete the @Component from that class).

how can i fix it?

Answer 1

I think it should just be:

<context:exclude-filter expression="com\.company\.xyz\.xEventHandler" type="regex"/>