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

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

>It would still make sense to add a containsBean method to BeanFactory, I
guess, to avoid workarounds like isSingleton or getAliases checks. If noone
objects, I'll do that - is that OK with you, Darren? Rod, what do you think?

This makes sense so long as the bean won't be instantiated by that call.
Otherwise getBean() with a catch block would work.

R