Inject external object in a spring bean

Question

I have a noob spring question. if i have a bean that is dependent on google's gdata api jars. How I represent this in a beans.xml file?

Answer 1

<bean class="com.google.foo.bar.ExternalClass" id="yourExternalBeanName" />

Then you can inject this 3rd party bean in your classes. With XML:

<property name="yourProperty" ref="yourExternalBeanName" />

or annotations:

@Inject
private ExternalClass yourProperty;