there is no way to use spring annotations “service ” autowired" in a non web project

[alper kopuz]

I have a simple maven project (not a maven web project) and I want to use spring annotations in my code. I have successfully used spring-context and spring-core in my pom.xml and I defiened applicationContext.xml with . But I can not find or use org.springframework.stereotype (Service, Autowired Annotations) in my code. It is not possible to use such kind of Spring basic annotations if my project is not a web based project ?

Cheers

"Does not work" means it gives compile error . this is pom.xml 's dependency :

    <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
       <version>${spring.version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
       <version>${spring.version}</version>
   </dependency>
and this is my import which does not work

import org.springframework.stereotype

[s ravi chandran]

It should work as per my understanding. Will get back after trying this out. I do remember using context scan in my project.
As far as I remember we should have two config nodes for this. One for enabling autowire and other for context scanning annotations