If I add a bean definition in a BeanFactoryPostProcessor. (Something like the below) Is that bean available for autowiring? Based on my test it doesn't seem so, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. Is there a way to dynamically create a bean definition and have that be available for @Autowire injection? If I look at the @EnableJpaRepositories source it seems to create its bean definition during the @Configuration processing not during BeanFactory Post Processing.

Code:
public class RepoGeneratorPostProcessor implements BeanFactoryPostProcessor {

    public void postProcessBeanFactory(
            ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException {

        GenericBeanDefinition jpaR = new GenericBeanDefinition();
        jpaR.setBeanClass(JpaRepositoryFactoryBean.class);
        jpaR.setAutowireCandidate(true);
        jpaR.setAutowireMode(GenericBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE);
        jpaR.setLazyInit(false);
        jpaR.setPropertyValues(new MutablePropertyValues().add("repositoryInterface", FirstRepository.class));

        RootBeanDefinition definition = new RootBeanDefinition();
        definition.setBeanClass(FirstRepository.class);
        definition.setAutowireCandidate(true);
        definition.setFactoryBeanName("&jpaR");
        definition.setFactoryMethodName("getObject");
        definition.setAutowireMode(GenericBeanDefinition.AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME);
        definition.setLazyInit(false);
        definition.setAttribute(RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.SKIP_REQUIRED_CHECK_ATTRIBUTE, Boolean.TRUE);


        BeanDefinitionRegistry registry = (BeanDefinitionRegistry)beanFactory;
        registry.registerBeanDefinition("jpaR", jpaR);
        registry.registerBeanDefinition("first", definition);

 }
Thanks!
Doug