spring_component_scan_example.xml

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

<!-- All magic hides within this line:
It does a component scan for this package, so any beans that have any one of the following three annotations:
@Repository, @Service or @Component
will be scanned and autowired up.
Also I'll have to put @Autowired annotation on those private fields inside that Person clalss. -->

<context:component-scan base-package="spring_component_scan_example"/>

    <bean id="wife" class="spring_component_scan_example.Wife">
        <property name="name" value="Sophie Sun"/>
        <property name="faith" value="Christian"/>
    </bean>

</beans>