Re: [Springframework-developer] XML bean references

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

On Monday 20 October 2003 16:50, j=C3=BCrgen h=C3=B6ller [werk3AT] wrote:

> I'm inclined to go the "bean" / "local" / "external"(deprecated) route
> again... Votes please! Given this decision, I vote for "local" instead of
> "internal"; Colin obviously does too.

It's likely I'm missing something obvious, maybe due to not using Spring on=
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projects where I'd see the advantage of this, but what exactly is the=20
real-world advantage of having the distinction?  I know it lends weight to=
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the DTD validation for local beans, which means my IDE can tell me that I=20
made a typo in a <ref bean=3D"foo" /> tag before the logging output does, b=
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is there something more?  Or is there more of an advantage than I can see=20
from the additional validation - performance, or caching or something?

Just a bit curious since part of the discussion relates to what is the=20
simplest concept and it seems as though it would be simplest all round if=20
<ref bean=3D"foo" /> was the only attribute, which worked for both local an=
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external.

If there are good reasons to keep the distinction, then I'm +1 for the=20
bean/local option.

TIA for any insight..

Regards,

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Darren Davison
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