@Component with parent?

Question

Is there any way to use with @Component annotation (creating spring beans using annotation)?

I would like to create sprin

Answer 1

Just came across the same Construct.. (a general abstract parent Class which used Beans - with context.xml-declaration for an potential Implementation that was injected by Component-scan)

This is what I could have done in the @Component Class:

@Autowired
public void setBeanUsedInParent(BeanUsedInParent bean) {
   super.setBeanUsedInParent(bean);
}

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..what I ended up doing (better, since it makes clear that the injection works on the object not on classes) - and if you are able to modify the parent Class:

// abstract getter in parent Class
public abstract BeanUsedInParent getBeanUsedInParent();

..leave the actual Beans as well as their injection up to the actual implementation (the @Component Class):

@Autowired
private BeanUsedInParent beanUsedInParent;

@Override
public BeanUsedInParent getBeanUsedInParent() {
   return this.beanUsedInParent;
}