Spring: How to inject a value to static field?

First of all, public static non-final fields are evil. Spring does not allow injecting to such fields for a reason.

Your workaround is valid, you don’t even need getter/setter, private field is enough. On the other hand try this:

@Value("${my.name}")
public void setPrivateName(String privateName) {
    Sample.name = privateName;
}  

(works with @Autowired/@Resource). But to give you some constructive advice: Create a second class with private field and getter instead of public static field.