Workbook 5.1

In the olden days, it was only possible to configure beans using XML.

Launch the starter project

Task 1

Create an app-config.xml file inside /src/main/resources.

Task 2

Use the following template to configure the Service and Repository beans.

<?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">

	<bean id="choose a name for the bean" class="path to class"> </bean>

	<bean id="choose a name for the bean" class="path to class"> </bean>
</beans>

An example of a path is: com.organization.artifactid.folder.ClassName

Task 3

There is an AppConfig class inside the source code. It has already been configured to scan for beans inside app-config.xml.

@Configuration
@ImportResource("app-config.xml")
public class AppConfig {

}

Task 4

Remove the @Service and @Repository annotations, otherwise Spring Boot will throw an exception. The beans are already being configured inside app-config.xml.

Final Remarks: I prefer the Java implementation.