Package org.springframework.stereotype

Annotation Interface Service

@Target(TYPE)
@Retention(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

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element	Description
String	value	Alias for Component.value().

Element Details

value

@AliasFor(annotation=Component.class)
String value

Alias for Component.value().

Default:

""