Re: [Springframework-developer] beandoc tool

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

On Friday 05 November 2004 00:53, Daniel Potter wrote:
> Will it handle autowired bean factories?

not right now, some of the really basic stuff isn't finished yet ;)

> I really like the approach=20
> you've taken with this (sort of a combination of SpringViz and
> JavaDoc).  A few weeks ago, someone suggested the idea of actually
> loading the application context or bean factory and generating the graph
> and documentation from that.  It seems like this would be the only way
> to support autowired configurations, but obviously poses problems b/c
> you don't want to actually instantiate/lookup all the beans.

exactly.  Some of which may depend on container resources and so on.  At th=
e=20
moment the tool has no dependencies on anything other than a couple of=20
libs.

> I played=20
> with this a bit and wrote a custom BeanFactory or ApplicationContext
> (can't remember which) that simply skipped bean creation.  I thought I'd
> just be able to then query for all the bean definitions and use them to
> generate the documentation, including dependency links.   Unfortunately,
> it turns out that autowired dependencies aren't stored in the collection
> of bean definitions (the definitions just reflect what was in the
> configuration files).  I stopped there and decided to wait for someone
> else to figure it out. ;)  Perhaps all that is needed is a custom
> BeanFactory that maintains these details and updates its bean
> definitions to reflect autowired dependencies as it's loaded?
>
> Thoughts?

depends how many are really using autowiring heavily - may look at it in th=
e=20
future but there's lots of other stuff to do first.


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Darren Davison
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