How to setup static class in spring?

[hairinwind]

I wrote a static util class for presentation tier.

But this util class need invoke a method of one class in business tier which is not static.

How can I set it in spring?

Thanks

[kbaum]

The problem with static classes is that they are not creating by the Spring container. If you want your static class to reference a spring configured bean, you need to explicitly get the bean by invoking getBean on a BeanFactory.

Instead, I would suggest replacing your static utility class with a non-static utility class. Then your utility can be created by the spring container and you can leverage dependency injection to reference the business tier.

[Alef Arendsen]

If you still need the static class, you can lookup the context by using WebApplicationContextUtils. You'd need the servlet context though, but since the it's a presentation tier utility, I suspect you have that available somewhere...

regards,
Alef