How to define a Spring bean using annotation instead of XML?

There's documentation regarding this; you'll want a stereotype annotation like @Component.

Stereotype bean annotations

this is a simple example that I have just made:

Main.java

package the.test;import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;import org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext;public class Main {public static void main(String[] args) {    AbstractApplicationContext aac = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(Person.class, Phones.class);    Person person = aac.getBean(Person.class);    System.out.println(person.getPhones().getPhoneOne());    System.out.println(person.getPhones().getPhoneTwo());    System.out.println(person.getSurname());    System.out.println(person.getName());    System.out.println(person.getAge());    aac.close();    }}

Person.java

package the.test;import javax.annotation.Resource;import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;@Configuration//you may use @ComponentScan("the.test") here and omit declaring //"Phone.class" in the main method public class Person {private int age;private String name;private String surname;private Phones phones;public int getAge() {    return age;}@Value("33")public void setAge(int age) {    this.age = age;}public String getName() {    return name;}@Value("John")public void setName(String name) {    this.name = name;}public String getSurname() {    return surname;}@Value("Due")public void setSurname(String surname) {    this.surname = surname;}public Phones getPhones() {    return phones;}@Resourcepublic void setPhones(Phones phones) {    this.phones = phones;}}

Phones.java

package the.test;import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;@Configurationpublic class Phones {private String PhoneOne;private String PhoneTwo;public String getPhoneOne() {    return PhoneOne;}@Value("987654321")public void setPhoneOne(String phoneOne) {    PhoneOne = phoneOne;}public String getPhoneTwo() {    return PhoneTwo;}@Value("123456")public void setPhoneTwo(String phoneTwo) {    PhoneTwo = phoneTwo;}}

this is completely based on Spring Annotation and is made on spring framework 4.2.5

hope it helps.