Is it possible to autowire beans using the @Autowired annotation without using component scanning?
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Yes. <context-component-scan .. /> is responsible for discovering beans annotated with @Component, @Controller, @Service, @Respository, etc.
In order to have annotations processed (@Autowired, @Resource, etc) you need <context:annotation-config />. Thus annotations are processed on beans that are listed in applicationContext.xml.
As far as I know, <context-component-scan .. /> activates <context:annotation-config /> automatically.
This is true for both sprign 2.5 and 3.0. (thanks skaffman)
Bozho
2010-03-17 03:53:06
@Bozho Good (+1) Take a look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2458769/how-to-create-commandlink-programmatically
Arthur Ronald F D Garcia
2010-03-17 04:06:35
(+1) Yes, this is still the case in 3.0
skaffman
2010-03-17 07:27:21
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I've looked into this and I'm still not sure if I understand what you're saying. So, I don't want to use component-scanning to do this. And I'm wondering if there is a way to autowire components without using component-scanning and only with context:annotation-config. I googled for the annotation-config but didn't find any usages without component-scanning. Do you have any working examples of this?
udit
2010-04-07 14:51:44