As short, sweet and simple an example as I could come up with to show a functioning Spring program with Java Annotation based configuration. I believe this is the most concise possible automatically configured and injected Spring program possible as of June 5, 2016
There are no configuration XML files, no configuration Java files, nothing but a properly written main application and a couple of automatically instantiated objects, with one being injected into the other.
It took me longer than I thought it should have to figure this out, and now that I look at what's actually involved I feel rather stupid for having had it take so long. In my defense, searching out information on this via web searches is a lengthy process of finding and ruling out the old, the obsolete, the misguided and the just plain wrong.
I hope this example helps someone else to avoid that pain.