Is this an example of Dependency Injection?

[Jehan Jaleel]

Hi,

Is the following code in my Struts action where I am retrieving a Spring bean an example of Dependency Injection?

 WebApplicationContext context = WebApplicationContextUtils
                .getWebApplicationContext(servlet.getServletContext());

        return context.getBean(beanName);

If so then which of the 3 categories does it fall into? Interface, constructor, or setter injection?

Thanks for any help,
Jehan

[David Newton]

I'm not sure *why* you'd do it this way, but this particular code snippet isn't really dependency injection, since you're retrieving the bean manually.

Now, the "beanName" property might fall into one of those categories (well, at least constructor (unlikely) or setter (most likely)) but we can't tell.