Annotations for context-aware operations and init/destroy

[functionform]

I love Autowired and Component. My apps tend to be on the smaller so these suffice for 99% of my use cases and I directly instantiate and operate on spring managed beans.

I need for my latest requirement to be able to programmatically access the context this bean is part of, and operate on other beans in the context. I see you can implement BeanFactoryAware and then use that, but I was wondering if there annotations for context-level items. Also does the same thing exist for init and destroy so I don't have to drop down to xml for that?

public class ContextOperator {

   // either of these would be awesome
   @BeanFactory
   private BeanFactory factory;
 
   @ApplicationContext
   private ApplicationContext context;

   @Init
   public void load() {
   }

   @Destroy
   public void close() {
   }

   public void doStuff() {
     context.getBean("adsf") etc...
   }
}

That seems like it would be a little more friendly in spring terms - you still are "tying yourself" to spring, but I don't care about that. I used to be very xml-oriented, but the annotations are really are so useful I've completely forgotten about any hesitation to include them in the code.

[Marten Deinum]

How about reading the reference guide, that gives the answers to all the questions you ask here...

If you want the BeanFactory simply put in @Autowired on a BeanFactory property inside your bean that should inject it.