title: Can Spring understand @Inject replacing Weld as a JSR-299 implementation?
body: <p>I have noticed from several web pages that apparently Spring 3.0 supports @Inject from JSR-330.  As we would really like to use JSR-299 syntax for dependency injection in our libraries for both web apps and stand-alone applications, and have alternatives to Weld, it would be nice if Spring could do this.</p>
  
  <p>Being a novice to Spring, I tried downloading the Spring Framework distribution and put all jars on the Eclipse build path.  No Inject annotation so my existing test project using Weld did not compile.</p>
  
  <p>Can this be done with Spring?  What do I need to do to get it running?</p>
  
  <p>(I am aware that Guice eventually will support this too.  It is only in SVN for now, and if there is an official Spring release which can, that would be better.)</p>
  
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  <p>It can be done.  The JSR-330 jar must be downloaded seperately, and cglib to parse the manually written @Configuration classes, plus a commons logging implementation.</p>
  
  <p>The largest difference from Weld seems to be that the wiring needs to be manually written instead of magically found (a bit more cumbersome, but may make more robust applications), plus the startup time is much less.  I am still new to Spring - is there a way to have @Configuration classes autodiscovered?</p>