 <p>It seems to be possible by registering a <a href="http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/context/annotation/Jsr330ScopeMetadataResolver.html" rel="nofollow">custom scope resolver</a> with your <code>&lt;context:component-scan&gt;</code></p> <p>For example:</p> <pre><code>&lt;context:component-scan base-package="com.company" scope-resolver="org.springframework.context.annotation.Jsr330ScopeMetadataResolver" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>See also this example of a <a href="https://github.com/matzew/spring-cdi-bridge" rel="nofollow">bridge for JSR-299 annotations</a> if you need to customize your solution a little bit more.</p>