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

Spring Components can also define factory methods. A snipped from the documentation:

@Component
public class FactoryMethodComponent {

  @Bean @Qualifier("public")
  public TestBean publicInstance() {
      return new TestBean("publicInstance");
  }

  public void doWork() {
      // Component method implementation omitted
  }
}