title: Assigning private static final field member using spring injection
body: <p>Is it possible to achieve such an assignment. The <a href="http://www.connorgarvey.com/blog/?p=105" rel="nofollow">article</a> here deals with <code>private static</code> field members but it does not help in this case as final members cannot be assigned.</p>
  
  <p>Justification for using <code>private static final</code> as a qualifier for the member:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The data member is a ServiceClient so it makes sense to have it attached to type as it does not depend on the instance. Its thread safe too, so it will improve performance as I will not initialize the client for each instance.</li>
  <li>The service client itself is a bean, having singleton scope. Hence actually there is only one instance. Since there will always be one instance, there is no point in allowing reassignment.</li>
  <li>Since this client is only be used by methods of this class, it is private.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I am not exactly sure if this is an anti-pattern, but if it is then do my justification qualify to use it? If yes, then how can it be done. If no, then please suggest an alternative (and I would still be interested to know how can this be achieved, just for knowledge purposes).</p>