```
@Target(TYPE)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Managed
@Singleton
@Stereotype
public @interface Repository
```
This annotation is to tag an object as being a repository of business objects. A repository is an object aimed to store and to retrieve objects in a given data source. It wraps the type of the used data source and the mechanism to access them.
Beans annotated with this annotation are marked to be managed by the underlying IoC container and to be singleton (there is only one single instance at a given time). If the bean declare another life-cycle scope, then the new scope overrides the default one.

The annotation is an abstraction above the IoC container used by Silverpeas so that it is can possible to change the IoC container (Spring or CDI for example) by changing the wrapped annotation to those specific at this IoC implementation without impacting the annotated IoC managed beans.

Annotation Type Repository