Bean injection inside a JPA @Entity

Question

Is it possible to inject beans to a JPA @Entity using Spring\'s dependency injection?

I attempted to @Autowire ServletContext but, while the server did

Answer 1

After a long time I stumbled across this SO answer that made me think of an elegant solution:

• Add to your entities all the @Transient @Autowired fields you need
• Make a @Repository DAO with this autowired field: @Autowired private AutowireCapableBeanFactory autowirer;
• From your DAO, after fetching the entity from DB, call this autowiring code: String beanName = fetchedEntity.getClass().getSimpleName(); autowirer.autowireBean(fetchedEntity); fetchedEntity = (FetchedEntity) autowirer.initializeBean(fetchedEntity, beanName);

Your entity will then be able to access the autowired fields as any @Component can.