Does Spring require all beans to have a default constructor?

I don't want to create a default constructor for my auditRecord class.

But Spring seems to insist on it:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: 
Error creating bean with name 'auditRecord' defined in ServletContext resource
[/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: 
Instantiation of bean failed; 
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: 
Could not instantiate bean class [com.bartholem.AuditRecord]: 
No default constructor found; 
nested exception is 
java.security.PrivilegedActionException:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: 
com.bartholem.AuditRecord

Is this really necessary?