ComponentLocator

A ComponentLocator is a special BeanFactoryPostProcessor that will scan the classpath in order to find Component interfaces annotated with ComponentInterface. ALl matches will be registered. The lifecycle is:

• ComponentLocator as a BeanFactoryPostProcessor scans for annotated component interfaces

• generates the corresponding descriptors ( service and component )

• generates new bean definitions that reference a dynamic proxy that is handled by the descriptor

• if implementations are found, the beans are removed from the context, since they would lead to ambiguities and remembered to be instantiated in a later phase setting the "local" attribute of the descriptor