解析BeanDefinition

首先从元素解析及信息提取开始，进入BeanDefinitionDelegate类的parseBeanDefinitionElement方法。

public BeanDefinitionHolder parseBeanDefinitionElement(Element ele) {
		return parseBeanDefinitionElement(ele, null);
	}

public BeanDefinitionHolder parseBeanDefinitionElement(Element ele, BeanDefinition containingBean) {
		String id = ele.getAttribute(ID_ATTRIBUTE);
		String nameAttr = ele.getAttribute(NAME_ATTRIBUTE);

		List<String> aliases = new ArrayList<String>();
		if (StringUtils.hasLength(nameAttr)) {
			String[] nameArr = StringUtils.tokenizeToStringArray(nameAttr, MULTI_VALUE_ATTRIBUTE_DELIMITERS);
			aliases.addAll(Arrays.asList(nameArr));
		}

		String beanName = id;
		if (!StringUtils.hasText(beanName) && !aliases.isEmpty()) {
			beanName = aliases.remove(0);
			if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
				logger.debug("No XML 'id' specified - using '" + beanName +
						"' as bean name and " + aliases + " as aliases");
			}
		}

		if (containingBean == null) {
			checkNameUniqueness(beanName, aliases, ele);
		}

		AbstractBeanDefinition beanDefinition = parseBeanDefinitionElement(ele, beanName, containingBean);
		if (beanDefinition != null) {
			if (!StringUtils.hasText(beanName)) {
				try {
					if (containingBean != null) {
						beanName = BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.generateBeanName(
								beanDefinition, this.readerContext.getRegistry(), true);
					}
					else {
						beanName = this.readerContext.generateBeanName(beanDefinition);
						// Register an alias for the plain bean class name, if still possible,
						// if the generator returned the class name plus a suffix.
						// This is expected for Spring 1.2/2.0 backwards compatibility.
						String beanClassName = beanDefinition.getBeanClassName();
						if (beanClassName != null &&
								beanName.startsWith(beanClassName) && beanName.length() > beanClassName.length() &&
								!this.readerContext.getRegistry().isBeanNameInUse(beanClassName)) {
							aliases.add(beanClassName);
						}
					}
					if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
						logger.debug("Neither XML 'id' nor 'name' specified - " +
								"using generated bean name [" + beanName + "]");
					}
				}
				catch (Exception ex) {
					error(ex.getMessage(), ele);
					return null;
				}
			}
			String[] aliasesArray = StringUtils.toStringArray(aliases);
			return new BeanDefinitionHolder(beanDefinition, beanName, aliasesArray);
		}

		return null;
	}

以上便是对默认标签解析的全过程了。对spring的解析犹如洋葱剥皮一样，一层一层的进行，现在只能看到对属性id以及name的解析。在开始对属性展开全面解析前，spring在外层又做了一个当前层的功能框架，在当前层完成的主要工作包括如下内容。

（1）提取元素中的id以及name属性。

（2）进一步解析其他所有属性并统一封装至GenericBeanDefinition类型的实例中。

（3）如果检测到bean没有指定的beanName，那么使用默认规则为此bean生成beanName。

（4）将获取到的信息封装到BeanDefinitionHolder的实例中。

进一步查看步骤（2）中对标签其他属性的解析过程。

public AbstractBeanDefinition parseBeanDefinitionElement(
			Element ele, String beanName, BeanDefinition containingBean) {

		this.parseState.push(new BeanEntry(beanName));

		String className = null;
		if (ele.hasAttribute(CLASS_ATTRIBUTE)) {
			className = ele.getAttribute(CLASS_ATTRIBUTE).trim();
		}

		try {
			String parent = null;
			if (ele.hasAttribute(PARENT_ATTRIBUTE)) {
				parent = ele.getAttribute(PARENT_ATTRIBUTE);
			}
			AbstractBeanDefinition bd = createBeanDefinition(className, parent);

			parseBeanDefinitionAttributes(ele, beanName, containingBean, bd);
			bd.setDescription(DomUtils.getChildElementValueByTagName(ele, DESCRIPTION_ELEMENT));

			parseMetaElements(ele, bd);
			parseLookupOverrideSubElements(ele, bd.getMethodOverrides());
			parseReplacedMethodSubElements(ele, bd.getMethodOverrides());

			parseConstructorArgElements(ele, bd);
			parsePropertyElements(ele, bd);
			parseQualifierElements(ele, bd);

			bd.setResource(this.readerContext.getResource());
			bd.setSource(extractSource(ele));

			return bd;
		}
		catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
			error("Bean class [" + className + "] not found", ele, ex);
		}
		catch (NoClassDefFoundError err) {
			error("Class that bean class [" + className + "] depends on not found", ele, err);
		}
		catch (Throwable ex) {
			error("Unexpected failure during bean definition parsing", ele, ex);
		}
		finally {
			this.parseState.pop();
		}

		return null;
	}