Spring bean

Spring Bean Reference

In Spring, beans canaccess to each other by specify the bean references in the same or differentbean configuration file.

 In different xmlfiles

<ref bean="someBean"/>

In same xml files

<ref local="someBean"/>

3 ways to inject value into bean properties

1. Normal way

<beanid="aBean" class="***.ABean">
    <property name="name">
        <value>Ivy</value>
    </property>
    <property name="age">
        <value>18</value>
    </property>
 
</bean>

2. Shortcut

<beanid="aBean" class="***.ABean">
        <property name="name" value="Ivy"/>
        <property name="age" value="18"/>
 
</bean>

3. P schema

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
    <bean id="aBean" class="***.ABean" 
             p:name="Ivy" p:age="18" />
        
</beans>

Import multiple Spring bean configuration files

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
	
	<import resource="config/Spring-Config.xml"/>
	<import resource="core/Spring-Core.xml"/>
	
</beans>