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Defining Generic Beans with @Component

The @Component annotation marks a Java class as a bean so that Spring's component-scanning mechanism can pick it up and pull it into the application context.

snippet.java

java

@Component
public class SimpleTool {
    public String getInfo() {
        return "Tool is active";
    }
}

spring

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@Component

Indicates that an annotated class is a 'component' managed by Spring.

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