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Dependency injection in Spring Framework with example
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DI is dependency Injection. Spring supports DI to injecting beans in loosly coupled manner.

In below example Player is a definition class. PlayerDAO is a interface which is used in other Robot class. Player is not coupled anywhere tightly.
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Spring dependency injection example

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Step.1 Start a Java Project with Spring Jars 
  1. Open Eclipse
  2. Click on menu New -> Others
  3. In wizards type "Java Project" and Select "Java Project"
  4. Click Next
  5. Enter project name as "SpringDependencyInjectionExample", then click Next
  6. Goto Libraries tab, then click on Add External JARs, then select Spring's 21 Framework Jars and commons-logging-1.1.jar.
  7. Click Finish.
Step.2 Project Explorer Preview 
PlayerDAO.java
package com.springexamples;

public interface PlayerDAO {
    public void playerDetails();
    public String getPlayerName();
    public int getPlayerAge();
}
Player.java
package com.springexamples;

public class Player implements PlayerDAO {
    private String playerName;
    private int playerAge;
    
    public Player(String playerName,int playerAge){
        this.playerName = playerName;
        this.playerAge = playerAge;
    }

    public String getPlayerName() {
        return playerName;
    }
    public void setPlayerName(String playerName) {
        this.playerName = playerName;
    }

    public int getPlayerAge() {
        return playerAge;
    }
    public void setPlayerAge(int playerAge) {
        this.playerAge = playerAge;
    }
    
    public void playerDetails(){
        System.out.println("Player Details\n");
        System.out.println("Name: "+this.playerName);
        System.out.println("Age: "+this.playerAge);
    }
}
Robot.java
package com.springexamples;

public class Robot {
    private PlayerDAO player;
    
    public Robot(PlayerDAO player){
        this.player = player;
    }
    
    public void sayHello(){
        System.out.println("Robot Saying, Hi, "+player.getPlayerName()+"("+player.getPlayerAge()+")");
    }
    public void sayBye(){
        System.out.println("Robot Saying, Bye, "+player.getPlayerName()+"("+player.getPlayerAge()+")");
    }
}
bean.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
    
    <bean id="john" class="com.springexamples.Player">
        <constructor-arg value="John Peter" />
        <constructor-arg value="29" />
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="johnPlayer" class="com.springexamples.Robot">
        <constructor-arg ref="john" />
    </bean>

</beans>
RunMyProgram.java
package com.springexamples;

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

public class RunMyProgram {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("bean.xml");
            Robot player = (Robot) context.getBean("johnPlayer");
            
            player.sayHello();
            player.sayBye();
    }
}
Output 
Robot Saying, Hi, John Peter(29)
Robot Saying, Bye, John Peter(29)
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