The first in a series of articles exploring what's new in Spring 2.5: annotation support for dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath and lifecycle methods.

Spring profiles let developers configure their applications to behave differently in various environments. Most Spring profile configurations occur in the application.properties (or YAML) file.

You could use the @Bean annotation to designate a method that would serve the purpose of creating a bean to be autowired. Listing 11 shows a simple Service component.

Spring Boot's @ConfigurationProperties annotation The next step is to create a class that will be decorated with the Spring Boot @ConfigurationProperties and Spring @Component annotations. This class ...