Understanding aot.factories in Spring Boot 3 and Its Differences from spring.factories
The aot.factories and spring.factories files serve fundamental different purposes in Spring Boot 3. While spring.factories was traditionally used for auto-configuration, the newer aot.factories plays a critical role in Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation scenarios.
Evolution of Configuraton Loading
In Spring Boot 3, the auto-configuration mechanism ...
Posted on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:13:01 +0000 by Burns