Instantiating multiple beans of the same class with Spring annotations

Question

With an XML configured Spring bean factory, I can easily instantiate multiple instances of the same class with different parameters. How can I do the same with annotations?

Answer 1

Continuing @espen answer, injecting beans with qualifiers and configuring them differently with external values.

public class Person{
  @Configuration
  public static class PersonConfig{
    @Bean
    //@Qualifier("personOne") - doesn't work - bean qualifier is method name
    public Person personOne() {
        return new Person("Joe", "Smith");
    }

    @Bean
    //@Qualifier("personTwo") - doesn't work - bean qualifier is method name
    public Person personTwo(@Value("${myapp.second.lastName}") String lastName) {
        return new Person("Mary", lastName);
    }
  }
  /* blah blah */
}

@Component
public class SomePersonReference{
  @Autowired
  @Qualifier("personTwo")
  Person marry;
}