Re: [Springframework-developer] beandoc tool

[Rod J. <ro...@in...>]

>>I really like the approach 
>>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.

This will also allow you to get at AOP advice. You can cast any proxy to Advised and walk the advice chain, unless the 
config explicitly sets the "opaque" flag to disable that (for example, for security reasons).

The problem is if you require a JNDI environment etc to load the context.

I think this tool is important. Thanks, Darren!