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

The approach you have outlined is what I have seen being used to inject a Spring bean into a utility class.

Another option is:

with:

public class TestUtils {

   private static testBean;

   public static void setInstance(TestBean anInstance) {
     testBean = anInstance;
   }

  public static String getBeanDetails() {
    return testBean.getDetails();
  }
}

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