Spring Component Scanning Tip The use of <context:component-scan> implicitly enables the functionality of <context:annotation-config>. There is usually no need to include the <context:annotation-config> element when using <context:component-scan>.

componentScanning.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
  
    <context:component-scan base-package="org.example"/>
    
</beans>

Config.java

Configuration
@ComponentScan("com.company") // search the com.company package for @Component classes
@ImportXml("classpath:com/company/data-access-config.xml") // XML with DataSource bean
public class Config {
}