How to autowire an object in spring in an object created with new

Question

all I want to do is autowire the field backgroundGray in the NotesPanel class, but all I get is the exception below.

So, question is, how to autowire it correctly ? It r

Answer 1

Spring support @Autowire, ... only for Spring Beans. Normally a Java Class become a Spring Bean when it is created by Spring, but not by new.

One workarround is to annotate the class with @Configurable but you must use AspectJ (compile time or loadtime waving)!

@see Using Spring's @Configurable in three easy steps for an short step by step instruction.