On a SpringSource blog entry, the following sentence references a stereotype.

Because @Controller is a specialization of Spring's @Component Stereotype annotation, the class will automatically be detected by the Spring container as part of the container's component scanning process, creating a bean definition and allowing instances to be dependency injected like any other Spring-managed component.

What does this usage of the word stereotype reference? Is this a technical Spring term? Or is stereotype just used in a general sense?

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