Activates various annotations to be detected in bean classes: Spring's @Required and @Autowired, as well as JSR 250's @PostConstruct, @PreDestroy and @Resource (if available), JAX-WS's @WebServiceRef (if available), EJB3's @EJB (if available), and JPA's @PersistenceContext and @PersistenceUnit (if available). Alternatively, you may choose to activate the individual BeanPostProcessors for those annotations. Note: This tag does not activate processing of Spring's @Transactional or EJB3's @TransactionAttribute annotation. Consider the use of the <tx:annotation-driven> tag for that purpose. See Javadoc for org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext for information on code-based alternatives to bootstrapping annotation-driven support. from XML.