Injection based on parent class / interface

[lfty]

I am looking for a solution to this problem. Let's have an abstract class:

public abstract class Base  
{  
  protected Service service;  
   
  public void setService(Service service)  
  {  
     this.service = service;  
  }  
}

And now I want all spring mannaged instances, which extends the Base class, to be automaticaly injected with the Service instance. Is it possible in Spring? And how? Thank you for your help!

[posta07]

public abstract class Base  
{  
  protected Service service;  
   
  @Autowired
  public void setService(Service service)  
  {  
     this.service = service;  
  }  
}

Also, in your config file, make sure you set up annotations for autowiring.

<context:annotation-config/>

See the following for more:
http://static.springframework.org/sp...otation-config

[lfty]

Is there a way to achieve this functionality without annotations? I am stuck with java 1.4

[bdangubic]

Is there a way to achieve this functionality without annotations? I am stuck with java 1.4

- define abstract bean
- define your dependencies for it
- use parent attribute of the any class that needs to inject service

<bean id="abstractWithService" abstract="true">
    <property name="service" ref="service" />
</bean>

<bean id="service" class="xxx.xxx.Service">
 ...
</bean>


<bean id="anyClassExtendingBase" class="xxx.xxx.Service" parent="abstractWithService">
 ...
</bean>