Using Spring IoC to set up enum values

Question

Is there a way to set up such enum values via Spring IoC at construction time?

What I would like to do is to inject, at class load time, values that are hard-coded i

Answer 1

You can't create new enum values via Spring, they must be declared in the class. However, since the enum values will be singletons anyway (created by the JVM), any configurations that should be set, or services to be injected, can be done via invoking static methods in the enum class:

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/springframework/beans/factory/config/MethodInvokingFactoryBean.html