Best Practise of injecting applicationContext in Spring3

Question

As in the title above, I am confused about pros cons between injecting applicationContext by directly @Autowired annnotation or implementing ApplicationContextAware interfac

Answer 1

If you need to get a prototype in a singleton then you can use method injection. Basically, you create an abstract method that returns the object you need and spring will return the prototype everytime you call that method. You define the "lookup-method" in your spring config. Here are some links: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/1.2.9/reference/beans.html#beans-factory-method-injection http://java.dzone.com/articles/method-injection-spring