Spring: @Component versus @Bean

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@Component
Preferable for component scanning and automatic wiring.

When should you use @Bean?

Sometimes automatic configuration is not an option. When? Let’s imagine that you want to wire components from 3rd-party libraries (you don’t have the source code so you can’t annotate its classes with @Component), so automatic configuration is not possible.

The @Bean annotation returns an object that spring should register as bean in application context. The body of the method bears the logic responsible for creating the instance.

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