@@ -137,6 +137,64 @@ the route ``_controller`` value:
137137 fully-qualified class name (FQCN). See the
138138 `FrameworkExtraBundle documentation `_ for details.
139139
140+ For example, you could use annotations in the ``HelloController `` defined
141+ earlier::
142+
143+ // src/AppBundle/Controller/HelloController.php
144+ namespace AppBundle\Controller;
145+
146+ use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
147+ use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
148+
149+ class HelloController
150+ {
151+ /**
152+ * @Route("/hello")
153+ */
154+ public function indexAction($name)
155+ {
156+ // ...
157+ }
158+ }
159+
160+ With the following routes:
161+
162+ ..configuration-block ::
163+
164+ ..code-block ::yaml
165+
166+ # app/config/routing.yml
167+ app :
168+ resource :" @AppBundle/Controller/"
169+ type :annotation
170+
171+ code-block ::xml
172+
173+ <!-- app/config/routing.xml-->
174+ <?xml version =" 1.0" encoding =" UTF-8"
175+ <routes xmlns =" http://symfony.com/schema/routing"
176+ xmlns : xsi =" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
177+ xsi : schemaLocation =" http://symfony.com/schema/routing
178+ http://symfony.com/schema/routing/routing-1.0.xsd" >
179+
180+ <!-- the type is required to enable the annotation reader for this resource-->
181+ <import resource =" @AppBundle/Controller/" type =" annotation"
182+ </routes >
183+
184+ code-block ::php
185+
186+ // app/config/routing.php
187+ use Symfony\Component\Routing\RouteCollection;
188+
189+ $collection = new RouteCollection();
190+ $collection->addCollection(
191+ // second argument is the type, which is required to enable
192+ // the annotation reader for this resource
193+ $loader->import("@AppBundle/Controller/", "annotation")
194+ );
195+
196+ return $collection;
197+
140198tip ::
141199
142200 If your controller implements the ``__invoke() `` method, you can simply