Indicates that an annotated class is a "Repository", originally defined by Domain-Driven Design (Evans, 2003) as "a mechanism for encapsulating storage, retrieval, and search behavior which emulates a collection of objects".
Teams implementing traditional J2EE patterns such as "Data Access Object" may also apply this stereotype to DAO classes, though care should be taken to understand the distinction between Data Access Object and DDD-style repositories before doing so. This annotation is a general-purpose stereotype and individual teams may narrow their semantics and use as appropriate.
A class thus annotated is eligible for Spring DataAccessException translation when used in conjunction with a PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor. The annotated class is also clarified as to its role in the overall application architecture for the purpose of tooling, aspects, etc.
As of Spring 2.5, this annotation also serves as a specialization of @Component, allowing for implementation classes to be autodetected through classpath scanning.
为什么 @Repository 只能标注在 DAO 类上呢?这是因为该注解的作用不只是将类识别为Bean,同时它还能将所标注的类中抛出的数据访问异常封装为 Spring 的数据访问异常类型。 Spring本身提供了一个丰富的并且是与具体的数据访问技术无关的数据访问异常结构,用于封装不同的持久层框架抛出的异常,使得异常独立于底层的框架。