org.springframework.context.support
Class AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

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

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext, AbstractXmlApplicationContext

public abstract class AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext

extends AbstractApplicationContext

Base class for ApplicationContext implementations that are supposed to support multiple refreshs, creating a new internal bean factory instance every time. Typically (but not necessarily), such a context will be driven by a set of config locations to load bean definitions from.

The only method to be implemented by subclasses is loadBeanDefinitions, which gets invoked on each refresh. A concrete implementation is supposed to load bean definitions into the given DefaultListableBeanFactory, typically delegating to one or more specific bean definition readers.

Note that there is a similar base class for WebApplicationContexts. AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext provides the same subclassing strategy, but additionally pre-implements all context functionality for web environments. There is also a pre-defined way to receive config locations for a web context.

Concrete standalone subclasses of this base class, reading in a specific bean definition format, are ClassPathXmlApplicationContext and FileSystemXmlApplicationContext, which both derive from the common AbstractXmlApplicationContext base class.

Since:

1.1.3

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

loadBeanDefinitions(org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory), DefaultListableBeanFactory, PropertiesBeanDefinitionReader, XmlBeanDefinitionReader, AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext, AbstractXmlApplicationContext, ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, FileSystemXmlApplicationContext

Field Summary

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

APPLICATION_EVENT_MULTICASTER_BEAN_NAME, logger, MESSAGE_SOURCE_BEAN_NAME

Fields inherited from interface org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory

FACTORY_BEAN_PREFIX

Fields inherited from interface org.springframework.core.io.support.ResourcePatternResolver

CLASSPATH_URL_PREFIX

Constructor Summary

AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext()
Create a new AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext with no parent.

AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext(ApplicationContext parent)
Create a new AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext 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 void	loadBeanDefinitions(DefaultListableBeanFactory beanFactory) Load bean definitions into the given bean factory, typically through delegating to one or more bean definition readers.
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, getBeansOfType, getDisplayName, getInternalParentBeanFactory, getInternalParentMessageSource, getMessage, getMessage, getMessage, getParent, getParentBeanFactory, getResourcePatternResolver, getResources, getStartupDate, getType, isSingleton, onRefresh, postProcessBeanFactory, publishEvent, refresh, setDisplayName, setParent, toString

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

getClassLoader, 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

AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext

public AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext()

Create a new AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext with no parent.

AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext

public AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext(ApplicationContext parent)

Create a new AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext with the given parent context.

Parameters:

parent - the parent context

Method Detail

refreshBeanFactory

protected final 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.

A subclass will either create a new bean factory and hold a reference to it, or return a single bean factory instance that it holds. In the latter case, it will usually throw an IllegalStateException if refreshing the context more than once.

Specified by:

refreshBeanFactory in class AbstractApplicationContext

Throws:

BeansException - if initialization of the bean factory failed

See Also:

AbstractApplicationContext.refresh()

getBeanFactory

public final 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

See Also:

AbstractApplicationContext.refresh()

createBeanFactory

protected DefaultListableBeanFactory createBeanFactory()

Create the bean factory for this context.

Default implementation creates a DefaultListableBeanFactory with the internal bean factory of this context's parent as parent bean factory.

Can be overridden in subclasses.

Returns:

the bean factory for this context

See Also:

DefaultListableBeanFactory, AbstractApplicationContext.getInternalParentBeanFactory()

loadBeanDefinitions

protected abstract void loadBeanDefinitions(DefaultListableBeanFactory beanFactory)
                                     throws IOException,
                                            BeansException

Load bean definitions into the given bean factory, typically through delegating to one or more bean definition readers.

Parameters:

beanFactory - the bean factory to load bean definitions into

Throws:

IOException - if loading of bean definition files failed

BeansException - if parsing of the bean definitions failed

See Also:

PropertiesBeanDefinitionReader, XmlBeanDefinitionReader