org.springframework.stereotype
Annotation Type Service

@Target(value=TYPE)
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Component
public @interface Service

Indicates that an annotated class is a "Service", originally defined by Domain-Driven Design (Evans, 2003) as "an operation offered as an interface that stands alone in the model, with no encapsulated state."

May also indicate that a class is a "Business Service Facade" (in the Core J2EE patterns sense), or something similar. This annotation is a general-purpose stereotype and individual teams may narrow their semantics and use as appropriate.

This annotation serves as a specialization of @Component, allowing for implementation classes to be autodetected through classpath scanning.

Since:

2.5

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

Component, Repository

Optional Element Summary

String

value The value may indicate a suggestion for a logical component name, to be turned into a Spring bean in case of an autodetected component.

value

public abstract String value

The value may indicate a suggestion for a logical component name, to be turned into a Spring bean in case of an autodetected component.

Returns:

the suggested component name, if any

Default:

""