Intentionally setting a Spring bean to null

Question

I\'m using Spring to inject JMS connection factory into my Java application. Since this factory is only required within the production environment, not while I\'m developing

Answer 1

For anyone coming to this question, keep in mind that simply setting the @Autowired annotation as optional will do the trick (i.e. Spring will leave the reference null if no qualifying bean is found).

@Autowired(required = false)
private SomeClass someBean

Note that you would have to do this everywhere the bean is referenced, which may be a bigger hassle than creating a null-factory as mentioned above.