April 05
Prof. Ismael H. F. Santos -  ismael@tecgraf.puc-rio.br                                                          2
The Inversion of Control (IOC) container
nAnnotation-driven configuration
nSupport for a complete set of configuration annotations: @Autowired in combination with support for the JSR-250 annotations @Resource, @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy
nAutodetecting components in the classpath
nIntroduces support component scanning: autodetecting annotated components in the classpath. Typically, such component classes will be annotated with stereotypes such as @Component, @Repository, @Service, @Controller. Depending on the application context configuration, such component classes will be autodetected and turned into Spring bean definitions, not requiring explicit configuration for each such bean.
n Support for bean name pointcut element
nintroduces support for the bean(...)  pointcut element, matching specific named beans according to Spring-defined bean names.
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