Spring can you autowire inside an abstract class?

Question

Spring is failing to autowire my object? Is it possible to autowire an object within an abstract class. Assume all schemas are supplied in application-context.xml

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Answer 1

Normally, Spring should do the autowiring, as long as your abstract class is in the base-package provided for component scan.

See this and this for further reference.

@Service and @Component are both stereotypes that creates beans of the annotated type inside the Spring container. As Spring Docs state,

This annotation serves as a specialization of @Component, allowing for implementation classes to be autodetected through classpath scanning.