Re: [Springframework-developer] Plug'nPlay for AbstractApplicationContext & ListableBeanFactory

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

Roger,

> I've been lurking about for a fair while, being thoroughly impressed by
> Springframework - the conception, the code, this excellent list, Rod's
book,
> in short the whole shebang - it seems quite a while since I encountered a
> project that more than anything, just seems to make me smile ;)  Many
> thanks.

Thanks. Made me smile :-)

> First up is the subject line & the method
> AbstractApplicationContext.getBeanFactory()
> I am wondering if the signature for this method might have been changed
> inadvertently ?  Prior to the introduction of support for
> BeanFactoryPostProcessor's, the method was returning the
ListableBeanFactory
> interface, but thereafter it has been ListableBeanFactoryImpl.  As the
> latter comes with a final modifier on each of the methods implementing
that
> interface, the opportunity for Plug'nPlay appears to have gone missing...
&
> if I'm not mistaken, a first casualty would be the loss of a
JdbcBeanFactory
> within an AbstractApplicationContext.  Can someone shed some
> light - am I just missing something ?

I'll leave this one to Juergen, but I did notice it in passing and
wondered...

>
> By the way, on my wanderings I noticed the following typo in
> AbstractBeanDefinition.equals()

Thanks, fixed it. Ah, the beauty of open source. That code isn't currently
used btw, it was intended to allow for dynamic reconfiguration eventually.
There would have been an argument for zapping it for now, actually.

Regards,
Rod