Programmatic retrieval of beans via @Qualifier

[Solomon]

Is there a way to programmatically retrieve a bean via a qualifier?

[guznik]

You can use ApplicationContext.getBeansWithAnnotation() if you have several beans of the same type which differ in their qualifier annotations.

[Solomon]

That's interesting, as is this thread: http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=78141.

Still, I'm probably going to stick with my map of type->beanNames hack for now. It's probably more performant and less code.