[Springframework-developer] EMF model-based BeanFactory

[Mike K. <mka...@ti...>]

Has anyone considered an open source BeanFactory that uses EMF to
serialize out application.xml configuration?

Application.xml files get huge. Is there a link out there for best
practices on managing them?

Currently a BeanFactory can inherit from another BeanFactory.=20

This means that you can have multiple application.xml files but this
adds scoping for references.=20

In some cases I don't want the scoping (I want to reference across
application.xml files that are at the same depth in the hierarchy).

If EMF was used to represent the DI model then you could selectively
serialize beans to any files you want.

Ideally there would be a new type of reference that would resolve an EMF
reference too although that can be implemented with a FactoryBean or
PropertyEditor in today's BeanFactories.

Thanks,

-mike