@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

Following my comment, this piece of XML

is more or less eqivalent to this code (note that I created artificial Base class since abstract beans in Spring don't need a class):

public abstract class Base {
    @Autowired
    protected Foo foo;
}

@Component
public class Wallace extends Base {}

@Component
public class Gromit extends Base {}

Wallace and Gromit now have access to common Foo property. Also you can override it, e.g. in @PostConstruct.

BTW I really liked parent feature in XML which allowed to keep beans DRY, but Java approach seems even cleaner.