This tutorial introduces you to Java annotations. You’ll learn how to use each of these elements in your Java annotations. Using @interface to declare annotation types You can declare an ...

However, if you want to customize the way a field maps to a database column, you can decorate a property with the @Column annotation ... The @Column and @Transient JPA annotations are two examples of ...

The key difference between the Spring @Component and @Bean annotations is that the @Bean annotation can be used to expose JavaBeans you write yourself, while the @Component annotation can be used to ...