How to Autowire Bean of generic type in Spring?

Question

I have a bean Item which is required to be autowired in a @Configuration class.

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

          


        

Answer 1

If you dont want to upgrade to Spring 4 you have to autowire by name as below :

@Autowired
@Qualifier("stringItem")
private Item strItem; // Injects the stringItem bean

@Autowired
@Qualifier("integerItem")
private Item intItem; // Injects the integerItem bean