@Repository

External

• https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/stereotype/Repository.html

Internal

• Spring Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Container Concepts
• Spring Persistence Concepts

Overview

@Repository is a stereotype annotation for the persistence layer that lets component scanning find and configure the DAOs and repositories without having to provide XML configuration entries for them. The annotation indicates that the class should be automatically discovered by component scanning and instantiated as a bean in the Spring application context.