Spring 3.0 supports standard JSR 330 Dependency Injection for java. These annotations are scanned the same way as the Spring annotations, only requirement would be to have the relevant jars in your classpath. You can use the following annotations in Spring 3 applications.

• @Named instead of spring's @Component to declare a bean
• @Inject instead of spring's @Autowired to inject a bean

Student.java File

package com.jtechies;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;

@Named
public class Student {
	private String name;
	@Inject
	private Course course;
	
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	public Course getCourse() {
		return course;
	}
	public void setCourse(Course course) {
		this.course = course;
	}
}

Course.java File

package com.jtechies;

import javax.inject.Named;

@Named
public class Course {
	private String name;

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}	
}

Test.java File

package com.jtechies.test;

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

import com.jtechies.Course;
import com.jtechies.Student;

public class Test {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		ConfigurableApplicationContext context = new
		ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml");
		Course course = (Course)context.getBean("course");
		course.setName("MCA");
		Student student = (Student)
			context.getBean("student");
		System.out.println("course name = 
			"+student.getCourse().getName());
		context.close();
	}
}

spring.xml File

You also need to add <context:component-scan base-package=" " /> to scan bean annotated with @Named

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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

	<!-- base-package indicates where your component stored,
	spring will scan this folder and find out the bean 
	annotated with @Named -->
	<context:component-scan base-package="com.jtechies" />
	
</beans>

Output

course name = MCA