Spring boot annotation list

✅ 1. Core Spring / IOC & Bean Management

Stereotype annotations

@Component

@Service

@Repository

@Controller

@RestController

Configuration & Beans

@Configuration

@Bean

@Import

@ImportResource

@ComponentScan

@PropertySource

@Profile

@Scope

@Lazy

@DependsOn

@Primary

@Qualifier

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Dependency Injection

@Autowired

@Value

@Required

✅ 2. Spring Boot Specific

@SpringBootApplication

@EnableAutoConfiguration

@ConfigurationProperties

@EnableConfigurationProperties

@SpringBootTest

@TestConfiguration

@MockBean

@SpyBean

✅ 3. Web / MVC / REST

Controller & Mapping

@RequestMapping

@GetMapping

@PostMapping

@PutMapping

@DeleteMapping

@PatchMapping

Request handling

@RequestParam

@PathVariable

@RequestBody

@ResponseBody

@ResponseStatus

@RequestHeader

@CookieValue

@ModelAttribute

@MatrixVariable

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@ExceptionHandler

@ControllerAdvice

@RestControllerAdvice

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RS

@CrossOrigin

✅ 4. Validation (JSR-303 / Hibernate Validator)

@Valid

@Validated

@NotNull

@NotEmpty

@NotBlank

@Size

@Min

@Max

@Positive

@Negative

@Email

@Pattern

@Future

@Past

@Digits

@AssertTrue

@AssertFalse

✅ 5. Spring Data JPA / Persistence

Repository

@Repository

@EnableJpaRepositories

Entity mapping (JPA)

@Entity

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@Table

@Id

@GeneratedValue

@Column

@Transient

@Lob

@Enumerated

@Temporal

Relations

@OneToOne

@OneToMany

@ManyToOne

@ManyToMany

@JoinColumn

@JoinTable

@MapsId

@Embedded

@Embeddable

Query

@Query

@NamedQuery

@Modifying

@Param

@Procedure

Transactions

@Transactional

✅ 6. Security (Spring Security)

@EnableWebSecurity

@EnableMethodSecurity

@Secured

@RolesAllowed

@PreAuthorize

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@PostAuthorize

@PreFilter

@PostFilter

@AuthenticationPrincipal

✅ 7. Scheduling & Async

@EnableScheduling

@Scheduled

@EnableAsync

@Async

✅ 8. Caching

@EnableCaching

@Cacheable

@CachePut

@CacheEvict

@Caching

✅ 9. Spring Cloud / Microservices (very common)

@EnableDiscoveryClient

@FeignClient

@EnableFeignClients

@LoadBalanced

@CircuitBreaker

@Retryable

@Recover

@RefreshScope

✅ 10. Messaging (Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ)

@EnableKafka

@KafkaListener

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@SendTo

@EnableJms

@JmsListener

@RabbitListener

@RabbitHandler

✅ 11. Testing

@RunWith

@ExtendWith

@WebMvcTest

@DataJpaTest

@JdbcTest

@JsonTest

@RestClientTest

@AutoConfigureMockMvc

@AutoConfigureTestDatabase

@TestPropertySource

@ActiveProfiles

@DirtiesContext

@BeforeEach

@AfterEach

@BeforeAll

@AfterAll

@Test

✅ 12. AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)

@Aspect

@Before

@After

@AfterReturning

@AfterThrowing

@Around

@Pointcut

@EnableAspectJAutoProxy

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✅ 13. Internationalization / Formatting

@DateTimeFormat

@NumberFormat

✅ 14. Conditional Annotations (Auto-Config magic)

@Conditional

@ConditionalOnBean

@ConditionalOnMissingBean

@ConditionalOnProperty

@ConditionalOnClass

@ConditionalOnMissingClass

@ConditionalOnWebApplication

@ConditionalOnNotWebApplication

@ConditionalOnExpression

✅ 15. Actuator

@Endpoint

@ReadOperation

@WriteOperation

@DeleteOperation

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@PreAuthorize Security rule @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ADMIN')"

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@Before Before advice @Before("execution(*)")

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@MockBeanMock bean @MockBean UserService service;

@Endpoint Actuator endpoint @Endpoint(id="custom")

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want a pure category-wise list of Spring Boot / Spring annotations (no

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Here is the most complete practical catalog used in real Spring Boot applications.

🟢 1. Core / IOC / Bean Management

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@Component

@Service

@Repository

@Controller

@RestController

@Configuration

@Bean

@ComponentScan

@Import

@ImportResource

@DependsOn

@Lazy

@Scope

@Primary

@Qualifier

@Profile

@PropertySource

@Value

@Autowired

@Required

@Lookup

🟢 2. Spring Boot Specific

@SpringBootApplication

@EnableAutoConfiguration

@AutoConfiguration

@ConfigurationProperties

@EnableConfigurationProperties

@ConstructorBinding

@SpringBootConfiguration

@TestConfiguration

@SpringBootTest

@MockBean

@SpyBean

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🟢 3. Web / MVC / REST

Mapping

@RequestMapping

@GetMapping

@PostMapping

@PutMapping

@DeleteMapping

@PatchMapping

Request / Response

@RequestParam

@PathVariable

@RequestBody

@ResponseBody

@ResponseStatus

@RequestHeader

@CookieValue

@ModelAttribute

@MatrixVariable

@CrossOrigin

Exception

@ExceptionHandler

@ControllerAdvice

@RestControllerAdvice

🟢 4. Validation (Jakarta / Hibernate Validator)

@Valid

@Validated

@NotNull

@NotEmpty

@NotBlank

@Size

@Min

@Max

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@Positive

@Negative

@Email

@Pattern

@Future

@Past

@Digits

@AssertTrue

@AssertFalse

🟢 5. Persistence / JPA / Hibernate

Entity

@Entity

@Table

@Id

@GeneratedValue

@Column

@Transient

@Lob

@Enumerated

@Temporal

@Version

Relations

@OneToOne

@OneToMany

@ManyToOne

@ManyToMany

@JoinColumn

@JoinTable

@MapsId

@MapKey

@OrderBy

@OrderColumn

@Embedded

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@Embeddable

🟢 6. Spring Data

@Repository

@EnableJpaRepositories

@Query

@NamedQuery

@NamedNativeQuery

@Modifying

@Param

@Procedure

@Transactional

@Lock

@EntityGraph

🟢 7. Transaction Management

@Transactional

@EnableTransactionManagement

🟢 8. Security (Spring Security)

@EnableWebSecurity

@EnableMethodSecurity

@Secured

@RolesAllowed

@PreAuthorize

@PostAuthorize

@PreFilter

@PostFilter

@AuthenticationPrincipal

🟢 9. Scheduling & Async

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@EnableScheduling

@Scheduled

@EnableAsync

@Async

🟢 10. Cache

@EnableCaching

@Cacheable

@CachePut

@CacheEvict

@Caching

🟢 11. AOP

@Aspect

@Before

@After

@AfterReturning

@AfterThrowing

@Around

@Pointcut

@EnableAspectJAutoProxy

🟢 12. Messaging (Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ)

@EnableKafka

@KafkaListener

@SendTo

@EnableJms

@JmsListener

@RabbitListener

@RabbitHandler

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🟢 13. Spring Cloud / Microservices

@EnableDiscoveryClient

@EnableEurekaClient

@FeignClient

@EnableFeignClients

@LoadBalanced

@RefreshScope

@Retryable

@Recover

@CircuitBreaker

🟢 14. Conditional (Auto Configuration)

@Conditional

@ConditionalOnBean

@ConditionalOnMissingBean

@ConditionalOnProperty

@ConditionalOnClass

@ConditionalOnMissingClass

@ConditionalOnWebApplication

@ConditionalOnNotWebApplication

@ConditionalOnExpression

🟢 15. Actuator

@Endpoint

@ReadOperation

@WriteOperation

@DeleteOperation

@EndpointWebExtension

🟢 16. Internationalization / Formatting

@DateTimeFormat

@NumberFormat

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🟢 17. Testing

@RunWith

@ExtendWith

@Test

@BeforeEach

@AfterEach

@BeforeAll

@AfterAll

@SpringBootTest

@WebMvcTest

@DataJpaTest

@JdbcTest

@JsonTest

@RestClientTest

@AutoConfigureMockMvc

@AutoConfigureTestDatabase

@TestPropertySource

@ActiveProfiles

@DirtiesContext

⚠ Note:

There is no official single list of “every annotation” because Spring = multiple

frameworks + Jakarta EE + Spring Cloud + Testing + new

versions.

This list covers 95% of annotations used in enterprise Spring Boot projects.

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