Many Spring Boot developers like their apps to use auto-configuration, component scan and be able to define extra configuration on their "application class". A single@SpringBootApplication annotation can be used to enable those three features, that is:

• @EnableAutoConfiguration: enable Spring Boot’s auto-configuration mechanism
• @ComponentScan: enable @Component scan on the package where the application is located (see the best practices)
• @Configuration: allow to register extra beans in the context or import additional configuration classes

The @SpringBootApplication annotation is equivalent to using @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration, and @ComponentScan with their default attributes, as shown in the following example:

package com.example.myapplication;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication // same as @Configuration @EnableAutoConfiguration @ComponentScan
public class Application {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
	}

}

package com.example.myapplication;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;
@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@Import({ MyConfig.class, MyAnotherConfig.class })
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
}

In this example, Application is just like any other Spring Boot application except that
@Component-annotated classes are not detected automatically and the user-defined beans are
imported explicitly (see @Import)