java - Injection through Annotations vs injection through XML file in Spring 3. Limitations related to inheritance -

i have following abstract class, property called portletbaseviewname meant different every concrete controller extending abstractcontroller.

public abstract class abstractcontroller {      private string portletbaseviewname;      protected string getportletbaseviewname() {         return portletbaseviewname;     }      @required     @value("")     public void setportletbaseviewname(string portletbaseviewname) {         this.portletbaseviewname = portletbaseviewname;     }  }  @controller @requestmapping("view") public class reservationofbooksviewcontroller extends abstractcontroller{} 

i know possible declaring injections in xml, doing so:

<bean id="abstractcontroller" class="es.alcampo.portalweb.portlets.common.controller.abstractcontroller" abstract="true">     <property name="portletbaseviewname" value="" /> </bean>  <bean id="reservationofbooksviewcontroller" class="es.example.portalweb.portlets.reservationofbooks.controller.reservationofbooksviewcontroller" parent="abstractcontroller">     <property name="portletbaseviewname" value="reservationofbooks" /> </bean>  <bean id="myshopviewcontroller" class="es.example.portalweb.portlets.reservationofbooks.controller.myshopviewcontroller" parent="abstractcontroller">     <property name="portletbaseviewname" value="myshop" /> </bean> 

do need redefine?:

@controller @requestmapping("view") public class reservationofbooksviewcontroller extends abstractcontroller{     @value("reservationofbooks")     public void setportletbaseviewname(string portletbaseviewname) {         super.setportletbaseviewname(portletbaseviewname);     } } 

i don't previous option, elegant option if there reach purpose of injecting 1 value or depending on concrete class through annotations?

i know inheritance , annotations conflict.

thanks lot.

do need @value here?

@value useful when contains expressions evaluated spring @ runtime. otherwise can replace explicit initialization (and keeping setter method allows override values xml configuration):

public abstract class abstractcontroller {      protected string portletbaseviewname = "";            public void setportletbaseviewname(string portletbaseviewname) {          this.portletbaseviewname = portletbaseviewname;      }  }   @controller   @requestmapping("view")   public class reservationofbooksviewcontroller extends abstractcontroller{       public reservationofbooksviewcontroller() {         this.portletbaseviewname = "reservationofbooks";     } }