@Required: This annotation makes a filed setter injection

mandatory.

package com.app.model;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Required;

public class Employee {

private Integer val;

public Integer getVal() {

return val;
}

@Required
public void setVal(Integer val) {
this.val = val;
}

Beans.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
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">

<context:annotation-config></context:annotation-config>

<bean id="employee" class="com.app.model.Employee" >

<property name="val">
<value>250</value>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>

Client Program:

package com.app.test;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

import
org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationCon
text;

import com.app.model.Employee;

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {

ApplicationContext context=new
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("beans.xml");

Employee
emp=context.getBean("employee",Employee.class);

System.out.println(emp.getVal());