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

Should you need to inject, in the new created object, beans or properties from the spring context, you can have a look at the following section of code in which I have extended the Espen answer by injecting a bean which is created from the spring context:

@Configuration
public class PersonConfig {

@Autowired 
private OtherBean other;

@Bean
public Person personOne() {
    return new Person("Joe", "Smith", other);
    }
}

Have a look at this article for all the possibile scenarios.