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 use Enum class as factory bean. Example: setting serializationInclusion field with enum value:

            
                
                       
                        NON_NULL
                    
                
            

But actually (Spring 3.1) a simpler solution works: you just write the enum value and Spring recognizes what to do: