Spring factory method
File: context.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd"> <beans> <bean id="pattern" class="java.util.regex.Pattern" factory-method="compile"> <constructor-arg value="abc"/> </bean> </beans> File: Main.java import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory; import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory; import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory = new XmlBeanFactory(new ClassPathResource( "context.xml")); Pattern pattern = (Pattern) beanFactory.getBean("pattern"); Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("abc abc abc"); int matchCount = 0; while (matcher.find()) { matchCount++; } System.out.println(matchCount); } }