Annotation Interface InheritedComponent

@Target(TYPE)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Component
@Inherited
public @interface InheritedComponent

Marks an extension point whose implementations should be discovered as Spring components. Example: If abstract class SolutionSerializer is annotated with @InheritedComponent, all implementations will inherit the annotation, and therefore be detected at runtime as candidates for dependency injection. Autoconfig extension points such as factories and parameter providers use this annotation.