Does Spring require all beans to have a default constructor?

Question

I don\'t want to create a default constructor for my auditRecord class.

But Spring seems to insist on it:

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Answer 1

nicholas' answer is right on the money for XML configuration. I'd just like to point out that when using annotations to configure your beans, it's not only simpler to do constructor injection, it's a much more natural way to do it:

class Foo {
    private SomeDependency someDependency;
    private OtherDependency otherDependency;

    @Autowired
    public Foo(SomeDependency someDependency, OtherDependency otherDependency) {
        this.someDependency = someDependency;
        this.otherDependency = otherDependency;
    }
}