Please read the following Java doc I found in ConfigurableApplicationContext.java
/**
* Any number of these characters are considered delimiters between
* multiple context config paths in a single String value.
* @see org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext#setConfigLocation
* @see org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader#CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM
* @see org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet#setContextConfigLocation
*/
String CONFIG_LOCATION_DELIMITERS = ",; \t\n";
The reason I brought this up is, I found the following line in MapperScannerConfigurer#postProcessBeanDefinitionRegistry
scanner.scan(StringUtils.tokenizeToStringArray(this.basePackage, ConfigurableApplicationContext.CONFIG_LOCATION_DELIMITERS));
I think I made my point. ;-)