Spring Autowiring by Type

<bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.autoWiring.tutorial.Circle" id="circle">
   <property name="center" ref="center"></property>
</bean>
<bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.autoWiring.tutorial.Point" id="center">
   <property name="x" value="0"></property>
   <property name="y" value="0"></property>
</bean>

Lets see Exaple
Circle.java

package com.dineshonjava.sdnext.autoWiring.tutorial;

public class Circle
{
 private Point center;
  
 /**
  * @param center the center to set
  */
 public void setCenter(Point center) {
  this.center = center;
 }

 public void draw()
 {
  System.out.println("Center of circle is ("+center.getX()+", "+center.getY()+")");
 }
}

Point.java

package com.dineshonjava.sdnext.autoWiring.tutorial;

public class Point
{
 private int x;
 private int y;
 /**
  * @return the x
  */
 public int getX() {
  return x;
 }
 /**
  * @param x the x to set
  */
 public void setX(int x) {
  this.x = x;
 }
 /**
  * @return the y
  */
 public int getY() {
  return y;
 }
 /**
  * @param y the y to set
  */
 public void setY(int y) {
  this.y = y;
 }
}

spring.xml

<beans xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xsi:schemalocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans  
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

<bean autowire="byType" class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.autoWiring.tutorial.Circle" id="circle">
  </bean>
 <bean class="com.dineshonjava.sdnext.autoWiring.tutorial.Point" id="center">
  <property name="x" value="0"></property>
  <property name="y" value="0"></property>
 </bean>
</beans>

DrawingApp.java

package com.dineshonjava.sdnext.autoWiring.tutorial;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;


/**
 * @author Dinesh Rajput
 *
 */
public class DrawingApp 
{
 /**
  * @param args
  */
 public static void main(String[] args) 
 {
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml");
  Circle circle = (Circle) context.getBean("circle");
  circle.draw();
 }
}