Turning off dependency checking for a bean created by @component

[Paul Newport]

How do you turn off dependency checking for a bean defined by @component ?

It's easy for a bean defined in XML : dependency-check="none"

[spgmx]

@Autowired(required=false)

[Paul Newport]

Not quite. The scenario is

a bean with a getter and a setter on it, annotated by @component

the context fails to start as Spring is attempted to wire up the bean by calling the String setter. I want to turn off this behaviour some that the dependencies of the said been don't have to be present when the container starts.

[spgmx]

Have you tried it?

[Paul Newport]

Have you tried it?

Ah, you mean at the setter level ? No I haven't, I'm passed that error now, but if I come across the scenario again I will. Thanks.