Scan an external library in Java Spring Boot

It is neat to have configuration classes in a /config folder, located at the same level as the main class:

package com.leibnix.configs;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

// org.lala.capuccino is in a external library
@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = {"org.lala.capuccino"})
public class ConfigLibraries {

}

note that the packages:

com.leibnix

and

org.lala.capuccino

they are different

The main class must have a SpringBoot annotation to scan child packages of “com.leibnix”

@SpringBootApplication
public class MyApplication {

The main class is in the “com.leibnix” package and scans all components that have the “com.leibnix” prefix in their package.

A package that does not have a “com.leibnix” prefix will not be scanned.

the imports:

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

the dependency is:

  		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
		</dependency>