Re: [Springframework-developer] Bean Inheritance

[Rob H. <ro...@ca...>]

I think that would be a good idea, be a bit more explicit.

Colin Sampaleanu wrote:

> 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
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