Spring's traditional XML-based bean wiring is verbose and error-prone compared to Spring Boot's annotation-driven auto-configuration. This adds a new Enterprise pattern illustrating the contrast.

Changes

• New pattern content/enterprise/spring-xml-config-vs-annotations.json (id=110)
  • Old: XML <bean> declarations in applicationContext.xml
  • Modern: @SpringBootApplication + stereotype annotations (@Service, @Repository) + constructor injection
  • Labels: Spring (XML) → Spring Boot 3+
• Navigation chain: updated jdbc-resultset-vs-jpa-criteria.json next pointer to the new pattern

Example

Old (XML wiring):

<bean id="userService" class="com.example.UserService">
    <property name="repository" ref="userRepository"/>
</bean>

Modern (annotation-driven):

@Service
public class UserService {
    private final UserRepository repository;

    public UserService(UserRepository repository) {
        this.repository = repository;
    }
}

• Fixes Add new patterns for Spring #58

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