How to auto-install a factorybean instance (and not a getObject ()) with annotations?

Question

I know that you can get a reference to a factorybean instance when defining beans with XML ( Spring ). eg:.

<property name="factoryBean" ref="&amp;theFactoryBean" />

But can this be done with annotations? (possibly with @Autowired and @Qualifer?)

Do you need to annotate the plant itself so that it can be detected using Spring component scan?

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Joep May 10, '11 at 19:09

1 answer

artbristol · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-14T11:05:40+0000

Make your bean an implementation of BeanFactoryAware , but as the scaffman says, this is not a good practice.