Alias Bean Demo
File: context.xml <?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.xsd"> <bean id="name1" name="name2,name3,name4" class="java.lang.String"/> <alias name="name1" alias="namex1"/> <alias name="name1" alias="namex2"/> </beans> File: Main.java import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory; import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory; import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] a) { BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(new ClassPathResource("context.xml")); String s1 = (String) factory.getBean("name1"); String s2 = (String) factory.getBean("name2"); String s3 = (String) factory.getBean("name3"); String s4 = (String) factory.getBean("name4"); String s5 = (String) factory.getBean("namex1"); String s6 = (String) factory.getBean("namex2"); System.out.println((s1 == s2)); System.out.println((s2 == s3)); System.out.println((s3 == s4)); System.out.println((s4 == s5)); System.out.println((s5 == s6)); } }