annotation based factory methods

Question

I want to be able to autowire a singleton bean (foo)

@Component
public class FooUser {

  @Autowire Foo foo;
}

created by ano

Answer 1

Try Java @Configuration instead:

@Configuration 
public class Config {

    @Bean
    public FooUser fooUser() {
        return new FooUser(foo());
    }

    @Bean
    public FooFactory fooFactory() {
        return new FooFactory();
    }

    @Bean
    public Foo foo() {
        return fooFactory().createFoo();
    }

}