AppContext.xml

<bean id="myBean" class="com.myapp.MyClass">
    <property ref="myService"/>
</bean>

MyService.java

@Service
public class MyService {
 ...
}

This will throw an exception stating that no bean can be found for property "myService", which I understand because it can't be found in the context files, but I can autowire that field in other spring managed beans, but I need to explicitly build the bean in my context because the POJO is not editable in the scope of my project.