Re: Spring injection with java annotation?

Hi,

I am wondering if I can use an annotation to inject property and avoid
to write getters and setters for each property.

Let's suppose my spring's bean looks like:

<bean id="test" class="foo.bar.Test">
    <property name="debug" value="true"/>
    <property name="firstname" value="Bill" />
    <property name="lastname" value="Gates" />
</bean>

The Test class should look like:

public class Test{
   private boolean debug;
   private String firstname;
   private String lastname;

   // Setters and getters...

   public void setFirstname(String furstname) {
      this.firstname = firstname;
   }

  etc etc...

}

What I would like to obtain is to avoid the setters and getters
methods by using an annotation:

public class Test{
   @Inject(name="debug", optional="false")
   private boolean debug;
   @Inject
   private String firstname;
   @Inject
   private String lastname;

}

So, let's see the @Inject interface:

public @interface Inject {
        String name() default "";
        boolean optional() default false;

}

Now, what I am missing is the injection engine, that should be written
in a class that extends the ApplicationContext I guess.

Can somebody give some help?

thanks