Accessing spring beans in static method

Question

I have a Util class with static methods. Inside my Util class, I want to use spring beans so I included them in my util class. As far as I know it\'s not a good practice to

Answer 1

you may also implement ApplicationContextAware interface, like this:

@Component
public class TestUtils implements ApplicationContextAware {

  private static ApplicationContext ac;

  public static String getBeanDetails() {
    return beanName = ((TestBean) ac.getBean("testBean")).getDetails();
  }

  @Override
  public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ac) {
    TestUtils.ac = ac;
  }

}