[Springframework-developer] how to determine if a bean exists in registry?

[Rajeev K. <Ra...@cu...>]

Is there an easy way to determine if a certain bean exists in the =
beanFactory?  I know one can use the getBean(name) to determine that, =
but it seems an expensive call,  especially, if there are bean post =
processors associated with it.  Don't you think having a function like   =
 boolean containsBean(String beanName) in a beanFactory class would be =
useful here?

Rajeev Kaul