How to make Spring IoC container available through out project - spring

Question

I feel stupid to even ask for this but I spent days looking for the answer and I'm still with nothing.
I wanna include simple Spring IoC container in my project. All I want it to do is to allow me Injecting/Autowiring some reusable objects in other classes. What I've done so far looks like this:
-> Project structure here <-
Configuration code:
package com.example;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import java.util.Random;
#Configuration
#ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.example")
public class AppConfig {
#Bean
public Random rand() {
return new Random(42);
}
#Bean
public String string() {
return "Hello World!";
}
}
Main class code:
package com.example;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import java.util.Random;
public class Main {
#Autowired
Random rand;
#Autowired
String string;
public static void main(String[] args) {
// workflow
Main main = new Main();
System.out.println(main.string);
}
}
AnotherClass code:
package com.example.deeperpackage;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import java.util.Random;
public class AnotherClass {
#Autowired
Random rand;
#Autowired
String string;
public void methodToBeCalled() {
// TODO
System.out.println(string);
}
}
How can I make these #Autowired annotations work? Do I have to instantiate container in every single class in which I want to autowire components? I've seen in work a oracle app which used Spring and #Inject to distribute objects to numerous classes and there was no container logic in any class available for me. Just fields with #Inject annotation. How to achieve that?

Answer 1

Simply add the annotation #Component on the classes you want to inject :
#Component
public class AnotherClass {
...
}
But you cannot inject static attributes and when you do new Main(), no Spring context is being created. If you use Spring Boot, you should look at how to write a main with it.
https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/