org.springframework.context.support
Class AbstractXmlApplicationContext

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.core.io.DefaultResourceLoader
      org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext
          org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext

All Implemented Interfaces:

ApplicationContext, BeanFactory, ConfigurableApplicationContext, HierarchicalBeanFactory, ListableBeanFactory, MessageSource, ResourceLoader

Direct Known Subclasses:

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, FileSystemXmlApplicationContext, XmlWebApplicationContext

public abstract class AbstractXmlApplicationContext

extends AbstractApplicationContext

Convenient abstract superclass for ApplicationContext implementations drawing their configuration from XML documents containing bean definitions understood by an XmlBeanDefinitionParser.

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $

Author:

Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

XmlBeanDefinitionParser

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext

logger, MESSAGE_SOURCE_BEAN_NAME

Fields inherited from interface org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader

CLASSPATH_URL_PREFIX

Constructor Summary

AbstractXmlApplicationContext()
Create a new AbstractXmlApplicationContext with no parent.

AbstractXmlApplicationContext(ApplicationContext parent)
Create a new AbstractXmlApplicationContext with the given parent context.

Method Summary

protected DefaultListableBeanFactory	createBeanFactory() Create the bean factory for this context.
ConfigurableListableBeanFactory	getBeanFactory() Subclasses must return their internal bean factory here.
protected abstract java.lang.String[]	getConfigLocations() Return an array of resource locations, referring to the XML bean definition files that this context should be built with.
protected void	initBeanDefinitionReader(XmlBeanDefinitionReader beanDefinitionReader) Initialize the bean definition reader used for loading the bean definitions of this context.
protected void	loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader reader) Load the bean definitions with the given XmlBeanDefinitionReader.
protected void	refreshBeanFactory() Subclasses must implement this method to perform the actual configuration load.

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext

addBeanFactoryPostProcessor, addListener, close, containsBean, containsBeanDefinition, getAliases, getBean, getBean, getBeanDefinitionCount, getBeanDefinitionNames, getBeanDefinitionNames, getBeanFactoryPostProcessors, getBeansOfType, getDisplayName, getMessage, getMessage, getMessage, getParent, getParentBeanFactory, getStartupDate, isSingleton, onRefresh, postProcessBeanFactory, publishEvent, refresh, setDisplayName, setParent, toString

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.core.io.DefaultResourceLoader

getResource, getResourceByPath

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader

getResource

Constructor Detail

AbstractXmlApplicationContext

public AbstractXmlApplicationContext()

Create a new AbstractXmlApplicationContext with no parent.

AbstractXmlApplicationContext

public AbstractXmlApplicationContext(ApplicationContext parent)

Create a new AbstractXmlApplicationContext with the given parent context.

Parameters:

parent - the parent context

Method Detail

refreshBeanFactory

protected void refreshBeanFactory()
                           throws BeansException

Description copied from class: AbstractApplicationContext

Subclasses must implement this method to perform the actual configuration load. The method is invoked by refresh before any other initialization work.

Specified by:

refreshBeanFactory in class AbstractApplicationContext

Throws:

BeansException

See Also:

AbstractApplicationContext.refresh()

createBeanFactory

protected DefaultListableBeanFactory createBeanFactory()

Create the bean factory for this context. Default implementation creates a DefaultListableBeanFactory with this context's parent as parent bean factory. Can be overridden in subclasses.

Returns:

the bean factory for this context

See Also:

DefaultListableBeanFactory

getBeanFactory

public ConfigurableListableBeanFactory getBeanFactory()

Description copied from class: AbstractApplicationContext

Subclasses must return their internal bean factory here. They should implement the lookup efficiently, so that it can be called repeatedly without a performance penalty.

Specified by:

getBeanFactory in interface ConfigurableApplicationContext

Specified by:

getBeanFactory in class AbstractApplicationContext

Returns:

this application context's internal bean factory

initBeanDefinitionReader

protected void initBeanDefinitionReader(XmlBeanDefinitionReader beanDefinitionReader)

Initialize the bean definition reader used for loading the bean definitions of this context. Default implementation is empty.

Can be overridden in subclasses, e.g. for turning off XML validation or using a different XmlBeanDefinitionParser implementation.

Parameters:

beanDefinitionReader - the bean definition reader used by this context

See Also:

XmlBeanDefinitionReader.setValidating(boolean), XmlBeanDefinitionReader.setParserClass(java.lang.Class)

loadBeanDefinitions

protected void loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader reader)
                            throws BeansException,
                                   java.io.IOException

Load the bean definitions with the given XmlBeanDefinitionReader.

The lifecycle of the bean factory is handled by refreshBeanFactory; therefore this method is just supposed to load and/or register bean definitions.

Throws:

BeansException - in case of bean registration errors

java.io.IOException - if the required XML document isn't found

See Also:

refreshBeanFactory()

getConfigLocations

protected abstract java.lang.String[] getConfigLocations()

Return an array of resource locations, referring to the XML bean definition files that this context should be built with.

Returns:

an array of resource locations, or null if none