Public attribute dependency injection

[ajspowart]

Is it possible to use dependency injection from the config file for setting public attributes?

The class I am trying to create acts like a structure, it has no constructor, and no setter methods, just public attributes, its also marked final so I cannot extend it and create setter methods or constructors.

Given this class, and the fact I cannot modify it, is there a way to set its attributes from the config file?

[tannoy]

You can create a wrapper class for that final class, and then can do the injection..

[wpoitras]

Extending AbstractFactoryBean is the best way to implement such a wrapper. It implements FactoryBean which is the basis of most of Spring's utility classes (like JndiObjectFactoryBean, ProxyFactoryBean, etc).