What is the right way to use an injected bean in a static method?

Question

This question might seem a little odd. Suppose I have a Service which I want to use in a Utility class that has some static methods. The Service is a Spring bean, so naturally I

Answer 1

You have no choice. If you want to initialize a static field of a class, you will have to let Spring create an instance of that class and inject the value.

A little advice. There really isn't any reason for you to be using static methods in this case. If you want a singleton utility, just make your bean have singleton scope.