Re: [Springframework-developer] Bean Inheritance

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

Rob Harrop wrote:

>    Reading through the 1.1 docs it says that a parent bean can never 
> be accessed directly in an app either through <ref> or getBean() yet I 
> was able to do both. Is this an error in the doc or the code?
>
> Rob

This is prefaced with the text 'In the case that the parent definition 
does not specify a class' before the sample...

If it has a class, it's usable as its own bean, and in fact you need to 
make it lazy-init=true or singleton=true to stop the factory from 
pre-instantiating it. I need to update the docs to specifically mention 
that.

Colin