Spring - Injection of beans using Builder pattern
<p><strong>Context</strong></p>

<p>An application that utilizes Spring 4.1.7. All configurations are in XML files (not using annotations) and I rather keep it that way (but I can change the ways things are done if I must).</p>

<p><strong>Problem</strong></p>

<p>I have created a new class that comes with a builder class.</p>

<p>Now I'd like to inject other beans into this new class. I can probably use lookup-methods and similar solutions to do that and then use the new class's builder in the caller beans to create an instance. However, I rather an instance of this new class to be injected to its caller beans then they creating one through the builder. This is where I'm not sure how I can do that. For example, this looks like an Abstract Factory to me, but I don't know how I can pass those parameters (which are passed to the builder) at runtime to the Abstract Factory and subsequently the factories it builds.</p>

<p>Some code snippets to make the question clearer:</p>

<pre><code>public final class Processor {

    private final StatusEnum newStatus;
    private final Long timeOut;

    // I'd like this to be be injected by Spring through its setter (below)
    private DaoBean daoInstance;

    private Processor() {
        this.newStatus = null;
        this.timeOut = null;
    }

    private Processor(Builder builder) {
        this.newStatus = builder.getNewStatus();
        this.timeOut = builder.getTimeOut();
    }

    // To be called by Spring
    public void setDaoInstance(DaoBean instance) {
        this.daoInstance = instance;
    }

    public void updateDatabase() {
        daoInstance.update(newStatus, timeOut);
    }

    // Builder class
    public static final class Builder {
        private StatusEnum newStatus;
        private Long timeOut;
        // lots of other fields

        public Long getTimeOut() {
             return this.timeOut;
        }

        public StatusEnum getNewStatus() {
             return this.newStatus;
        }

        public Builder withTimeOut(Long timeOut) {
             this.timeOut = timeOut;
             return this;
        }

        public Builder withNewStatus(StatusEnum newStatus) {
             this.newStatus = newStatus;
             return this;
        }

        public Processor build() {
             return new Processor(this);
        }
    }
}
</code></pre>

<p>I'd like an instance of "DaoBean" to be injected to the "Processor" class. But to do that, Processor will have to be a bean or otherwise I have to utilize something like lookup-methods. On the other hand, wherever I want to use processor, I have to do something like this:</p>

<pre><code>new Processor.Builder()
   .withTimeOut(1000L)
   .withNewStatus(StatusEnum.UPDATED)
   .build()
   .updateDatabase();
</code></pre>

<p>Instead of this, I wonder if I can make the Processor a bean that Spring can inject to its callers whilst maintaining its immutability. An instance of DaoBean can then be injected to the Processor by Spring. That way I'd be able to segregate the wiring code and the business logic.</p>

<p>It's worth mentioning that the Builder has a lot more than 2 fields and not all of them have to be set. This is why I thought an abstract factory is the way to go (building instances of the Processor in different ways).</p>