This question might seem a little odd. Suppose I have a Service which I want to use in a Utility class that has some static methods. The Service is a Spring bean, so naturally I will for example use a setter and (@Autowired) to inject it into my utility class. As it is mentioned in Spring's documentation, all beans are static in the bean context. So when you want to inject a bean in a class you don't have to use "static" modifier. See below:
public class JustAClass{
private Service service;
public void aMethod(){
service.doSomething(....);
}
@Autowired
public void setService(Service service){
this.service = service;
}
}
Now going back to what I mentioned first (Using Service in a static Method):
public class JustAClass{
private static Service service;
public static void aMethod(){
service.doSomething(....);
}
@Autowired
public void setService(Service service){
this.service = service;
}
}
Although Service is static, I am forced to put static behind its definition. This is a bit counter-intuitive to me. is this wrong? or is it a better way? Thanks