Re: [Springframework-developer] Bean Inheritance

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

Colin Sampaleanu wrote:

> 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.

We could consider an 'abstract' attribute actually, to stop a bean from 
ever being instantiated...

Colin