Spring Autowiring byName

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Spring Autowiring byName
Posted on: August 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM

In this tutorial you will see an example of spring autowiring byName.

Spring Autowiring byName

In this tutorial you will see an example of spring autowiring byName. The Autowiring is done by property name.

Student.java


package spring.noautowiring.mode;



import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;



public class Student {

  @Autowired

  private String age;

  private String name;

  private String address;



  public String getAge() {

    return age;

  }



  public void setAge(String age) {

    this.age = age;

  }



  public String getName() {

    return name;

  }



  public void setName(String name) {

    this.name = name;

  }



  public String getAddress() {

    return address;

  }



  public void setAddress(String address) {

    this.address = address;

  }

  

  @Override

  public String toString() {

    return "Student [name=" + name + ", age=" + age + 

                          ",address=" + address + "]";

  }



}

College.java

package spring.noautowiring.mode;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

public class College {

  private Student student;
  private String registration;
  private String year;

  @Autowired
  public void setStudent(Student student) {
    this.student = student;
  }

  public String getRegistration() {
    return registration;
  }

  public void setRegistration(String registration) {
    this.registration = registration;
  }

  public String getYear() {
    return year;
  }

  public void setYear(String year) {
    this.year = year;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "College [registration=" + registration + ", Student=" + student +
                          ",year=" + year + "]";
  }

}

AutowireMain.java


package spring.noautowiring.mode;



import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;



public class AutowireMain {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    BeanFactory beanfactory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(

        "context.xml");

    College coll = (College) beanfactory.getBean("college");

    System.out.println(coll);

  }

}

context.xml


<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

 

 <!-- byName auto-Wiring mode -->

  <bean id="college" 

	class="spring.noautowiring.mode.College" 
	autowire="byName">

    

    <property name="registration" value="BL001" />

    <property name="year" value="2001" />

  </bean>



  <bean id="student" class="spring.noautowiring.mode.Student">

    <property name="address" value="Delhi" />

    <property name="age" value="22" />

    <property name="name" value="Raj" />

  </bean>

<!-- End -->

	

</beans>

When you run this application it will display output as shown below:

College [registration=BL001, Student=Student [name=Raj, age=22,address=Delhi],year=2001]

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