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.

Soruce of this info is this: https://www.baeldung.com/spring-inject-static-field

Spring uses dependency injection to populate the specific value when it finds the @Value annotation. However, instead of handing the value to the instance variable, it's handed to the implicit setter instead. This setter then handles the population of our NAME_STATIC value.

    @RestController 
//or if you want to declare some specific use of the properties file then use
//@Configuration
//@PropertySource({"classpath:application-${youeEnvironment}.properties"})
public class PropertyController {
 
    @Value("${name}")//not necessary
    private String name;//not necessary
 
    private static String NAME_STATIC;
 
    @Value("${name}")
    public void setNameStatic(String name){
        PropertyController.NAME_STATIC = name;
    }
}