Spring How to autowire a component without using @Component or other derivatives

Question

I would like to autowire a component (still using the @Autowired annotation), but not require it to have the @Component (or other similar annotations) on it. How would I do

Answer 1

I don't sure, If I correctly understood to your question. But if you want inject bean B without marking bean A via some annotation, or xml definition, you can use SpringBeanAutowiringSupport

public class A {

    @Autowired
    private class B b;

    public A{
        SpringBeanAutowiringSupport.processInjectionBasedOnCurrentContext(this); 
    }

}