RE: [Springframework-developer] Explicit reference to bean in parent context

[James C. <jim...@do...>]

> Any opinions on this? I've already prototypically implemented it, and all
> tests pass. Just waiting whether there are any objections, or different
> naming proposals :-)
> 
> Juergen

I've read before in the docs that Spring offers this parent-child bean
contexts. This isn't the same thing as loading multiple contexts like in the
servlet examples, correct? I take it these are all siblings?

If so, the parent/child type of context implies the feature that one context
can override beans declared in a child context, or perhaps the other way
around? I think in those cases there may be some obscure reasons why a child
may want to access the parent bean it overrides. Possibly because of a
delegation type relationship.