Dependancy Injection for Date Object

[Akash123]

Dependancy Injection for Date Object doesnt seem to work

here's the code for the xml file

<bean id="date" class="java.util.Date"/>
<bean id="obj"   class="com.Person.Implementor" autowire="byName">
    <property name="username"><value>Abc</value></property>
    <property name="password"><value>password</value></property>
</bean>

Here's the class:

package com.Person; 
import java.util.Date;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

public class Implementor {

 String username; String password;
 Date date;

public Date getDate() {
    return date;
}

@Autowired
public void setDate(Date date) {
    this.date = date;
}

@Override
public String toString() {
    return "Implementor [username=" + username + ", password=" + password
            + ", date=" + date + "]";
}


public String getUsername() {
    return username;
}
public void setUsername(String username) {
    this.username = username;
}
public String getPassword() {
    return password;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
    this.password = password;
}

}

The Date reference seems to have the NULL value while printing, it works fine for custom created classes tough

[tannoy]

This is by Spring design. Spring does not do bean auto-wiring for "simple" properties, e.g. primitives, Strings and Date. But i don't see a good reason for you to auto-wire bean with Date type.