Define enum as Spring Bean and dependency inject it into another Spring Bean

[sunfun]

I am getting exception when I define an enum class as a Spring bean.

package org.poc;

public enum MyEnum {
	VAL1,
	VAL2;
}

My XML snippet of code:

<bean id="myEnum" class="org.poc.MyEnum" >
</bean>

myEnum bean is not found.

What am I missing?

[denis.zhdanov]

1. You missed the forum - the question is not related to AOP at all;
2. Your config declares a new instance of class 'org.poc.MyEnum' that should be instantiated using no-args constructor. It's perfectly expected that such a config fails;

Regarding solution - is it really necessary for you to have that 'Class' object defined as a separate bean? Isn't it better to directly define it as a target bean property?