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Jun 14, 2026 · Backend Development

Mastering Spring Boot’s @AliasFor: Flexible Annotation Customization

The article explains how Spring Boot's @AliasFor annotation, available since Spring 4.2, can create explicit and implicit attribute aliases in both built‑in annotations like @ComponentScan and custom composed annotations, with complete code examples and test output demonstrating the aliasing behavior.