Bean Name Aliasing
/* Pro Spring By Rob Harrop Jan Machacek ISBN: 1-59059-461-4 Publisher: Apress */ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //File: beans.xml <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd"> <beans> <!-- aliasing examples --> <bean id="name1" name="name2,name3,name4" class="java.lang.String"/> </beans> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory; import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory; import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource; public class BeanNameAliasing { public static void main(String[] args) { BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("build/beans.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"); System.out.println((s1 == s2)); System.out.println((s2 == s3)); System.out.println((s3 == s4)); String[] x = factory.getAliases("name3"); System.out.println(""); } }