@Autowired

[bagaria kushal]

If we anotate a class reference with @Autowired then is it mandatory to define a bean of that class reference in the spring configuration xml

[Hauke Ingmar Schmidt]

No. A bean that fits must be in the application context, by whatever method.

If you are using the @Autowired annotation you certainly don't want to use XML files for configuration?

[bagaria kushal]

My question is that if i use @autowired annotaion for a object reference then do i need to make an entry for bean of that reference in spring xml for eg


@Autowired
Employee emp;

Spring config xml

<bean id="emp" class="com.bean.Employee"/>

do we need to do this

[Shasi Mitra]

You can give this <context:component-scan base-package="org.example"/> . Now, all your beans in the package will be instantiated.

[Mark Spritzler]

Shasi Mitra wrote:You can give this <context:component-scan base-package="org.example"/> . Now, all your beans in the package will be instantiated.

As long as you are using @Component or one of its stereotype annotations.

@Component replaces the need for <bean> tags

@Autowired replaces the need for <property> or <constructor-arg> tags.

Usually you use both, but you don't have to.

You can use just @Autowired without any @Component, then in that scenario you will need <bean> tags for all the classes. Also, with this scenario you don't use component-scan, or need it, you use <context:annotation-config> instead.

Mark