Re: [Springframework-developer] FACTORY_BEAN_PREFIX

[Ramin F. <aqu...@ya...>]

Dear Spring team,
  When it comes to a factoryBean like this :
  <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="lobHandler" ref="lobHandler"/>
        <property name="mappingDirectoryLocations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:/net/xxx</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <!-- connection options -->
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">${hibernate.c3p0.max_size}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">${hibernate.c3p0.min_size}</prop>
                  ...
               </props>
           </property>
           ...
   </bean>
   what I need to do neatly is 
  LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactoryBean = (LocalSessionFactoryBean) getApplicationContext().getBean("&sessionFactory");
   
  So any xml automagic in the applicationContext.xml might not end up to a clearer way of resolving the bean itself in lieu of its factoryBean. I am sure that changing the BeanFactory interface and coming up with a new method like getBeanFromFactory(String factoryBeanName)  is not an easy issue because of backward compatibility. But I know that this is the obscure code and I find Mr. Colin Yates' idea a good solution. If we are restricted, at least a more meaningful prefix can be a better solution.
   
  All The Best,
  Ramin Farhanian