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Creating Beans with @Configuration

A class annotated with @Configuration is a source of bean definitions. Methods annotated with @Bean return objects that Spring will register as beans in the application context.

snippet.java

java

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 
@Configuration
public class AppConfig {
    @Bean
    public String appVersion() {
        return "1.0.0-PROTOTYPE";
    }
}

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Breakdown

@Configuration

Tells Spring that this class contains bean setup logic.

@Bean

Declares that the method result should be managed as a bean.

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