[Springframework-developer] verbosity of XML property declaration

[Marc L. <ma...@lo...>]

Hi,

i ve followed with great interest the xml namespace discussion today and 
my concern is also in the area of xml verbosity. While looking at my 
context XML files (which allready reached 800 lines after 3 weeks of 
project programming), i saw that i have plenty of definitions which go 
like this:

<bean...>
<property name="logisticProviderManagerService"><ref 
bean="logisticProviderManagerService"/></property>
</bean>

If its not only me who prefers (whenever possible) to have the same 
attribute name than the bean name/id, it would be nice to have something 
like this:

<bean...>
<property name="logisticProviderManagerService" refbean="true"/>
</bean>

or

<property name="logisticProviderManagerService" bean="ref|local"/>

But i really dont know how many others do it this way. So i dont know if 
this is of common interest here. If its not of common interest, or if i 
feel that this is a must have, i assume that the package 
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml is my friend right? ;-)

-- 
regards
Marc Logemann
http://www.logemann.org
http://www.logentis.de