How can I make use of @Autowired and @Value annotations independent of Spring context?

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I have some code written for a Spring Boot application that I now want to reuse outside of Spring Boot (for standalone command line tools).

What is the shortest path from having a PropertyResolver and an annotated class that wants @Values injected to an autowired bean instance?

For example, if I have a constructor

 @Autowired
 public TheBean(@Value("x") int a, @Value("b") String b){}

and I already set up (dynamically, in code)

 PropertyResolver props; 

how can I make use of all this annotations so that I don't have to write the very explicit and repetitive

TheBean bean = new TheBean(
     props.getProperty("x", Integer.TYPE), 
     props.getProperty("y"));

I have the complete Spring Boot application (including Spring dependencies) on the classpath, but Spring has not been initialized (no call to SpringApplication#run, because that would bring up the whole web server application).

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Thilo

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How can I make use of @Autowired and @Value annotations independent of Spring context?