spring - Using @ComponentScan or <context:component-scan /> with only one class

Question

I'm maintaining a project with two set of main packages, the project is using Spring and Spring MVC, one of these packages contains several controllers and is scanned using XML configuration (<context:component-scan />).

The problem is that there is a single class in the other package (not scanned), and I need this class to be scanned, but only this class and nothing else in the package. I can't change its package now since it would be too risky now.

So is there a way to do this using annotations or XML ?

Answer 1

What @Bart said for XML.

If you need to pull in that one class using annotations, add the following to one of your @Configuration classes

@ComponentScan(
    basePackageClasses = YourClass.class, 
    useDefaultFilters = false,
    includeFilters = {
        @ComponentScan.Filter(type = ASSIGNABLE_TYPE, value = YourClass.class)
    })