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

[Sam Gehouse]

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.

I understand that the constructor in enum is private.

What is the way around to define a enum class as a Spring bean?

[Travis Hein]

right, the enum cannot be instantianted in the classical bean way.

maybe with a converter type factory ?

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/ch05s05.html

but to have that enum live in a spring mapped bean, I would think we would still need to create a wrapper bean, that contains a property, that is of the type enum, that woud have its value set using the custom type mapper.