Re: [Springframework-developer] factory-bean attribute

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Timo,

Factory methods to create beans, and the factory-method attribute, are 
only available in the CVS head version of Spring.

Colin


Timo Verhoeven wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm using a factory to create a bean as written in the documentation:
>
><bean id="exampleBean" class="examples.ExampleBean"
>      factory-method="createInstance">
>...
></bean>
>
>On app startup I get: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Attribute 
>"factory-method" must be declared for element type "bean".
>
>The current spring-beans.dtd at 
>http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd does not contain 
>the factory-method attribute.
>
>Is the documentation out of date here or is something missing in the 
>dtd/implementation?
>
>Regards,
>
>Timo
>  
>