Package org.springframework.core

Provides basic classes for exception handling and version detection, and other core helpers that are not specific to any part of the framework.

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Interface Summary

AliasRegistry	Common interface for managing aliases.
AttributeAccessor	Interface defining a generic contract for attaching and accessing metadata to/from arbitrary objects.
ConcurrentMap	Common interface for a concurrent Map, as exposed by CollectionFactory.createConcurrentMap(int).
ControlFlow	Interface to be implemented by objects that can return information about the current call stack.
ErrorCoded	Interface that can be implemented by exceptions etc that are error coded.
InfrastructureProxy	Interface to be implemented by transparent resource proxies that need to be considered as equal to the underlying resource, for example for consistent lookup key comparisons.
Ordered	Interface that can be implemented by objects that should be orderable, for example in a Collection.
ParameterNameDiscoverer	Interface to discover parameter names for methods and constructors.
PriorityOrdered	Extension of the Ordered interface, expressing a 'priority' ordering: Order values expressed by PriorityOrdered objects always apply before order values of 'plain' Ordered values.
SmartClassLoader	Interface to be implemented by a reloading-aware ClassLoader (e.g. a Groovy-based ClassLoader).

Class Summary

AttributeAccessorSupport	Support class for AttributeAccessors, providing a base implementation of all methods.
BridgeMethodResolver	Helper for resolving synthetic bridge Methods to the Method being bridged.
CollectionFactory	Factory for collections, being aware of Commons Collection 3.x's extended collections as well as of JDK 1.5+ concurrent collections and backport-concurrent collections.
ConfigurableObjectInputStream	Special ObjectInputStream subclass that resolves class names against a specific ClassLoader.
Constants	This class can be used to parse other classes containing constant definitions in public static final members.
ControlFlowFactory	Static factory to conceal the automatic choice of the ControlFlow implementation class.
Conventions	Provides methods to support various naming and other conventions used throughout the framework.
DecoratingClassLoader	Base class for decorating ClassLoaders such as OverridingClassLoader and ShadowingClassLoader, providing common handling of excluded packages and classes.
GenericCollectionTypeResolver	Helper class for determining element types of collections and maps.
GenericTypeResolver	Helper class for resolving generic types against type variables.
JdkVersion	Internal helper class used to find the Java/JDK version that Spring is operating on, to allow for automatically adapting to the present platform's capabilities.
LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer	Implementation of ParameterNameDiscoverer that uses the LocalVariableTable information in the method attributes to discover parameter names.
MethodParameter	Helper class that encapsulates the specification of a method parameter, i.e.
NamedInheritableThreadLocal	InheritableThreadLocal subclass that exposes a specified name as NamedInheritableThreadLocal.toString() result (allowing for introspection).
NamedThreadLocal	ThreadLocal subclass that exposes a specified name as NamedThreadLocal.toString() result (allowing for introspection).
NestedExceptionUtils	Helper class for implementing exception classes which are capable of holding nested exceptions.
OrderComparator	Comparator implementation for Ordered objects, sorting by order value ascending (resp. by priority descending).
OverridingClassLoader	ClassLoader that does not always delegate to the parent loader, as normal class loaders do.
PrioritizedParameterNameDiscoverer	ParameterNameDiscoverer implementation that tries several ParameterNameDiscoverers in succession.
ReflectiveVisitorHelper	Deprecated. as of Spring 2.5, to be removed in Spring 3.0
SimpleAliasRegistry	Simple implementation of the AliasRegistry interface.
SpringVersion	Class that exposes the Spring version.

Exception Summary

ConstantException	Exception thrown when the Constants class is asked for an invalid constant name.
NestedCheckedException	Handy class for wrapping checked Exceptions with a root cause.
NestedIOException	Subclass of IOException that properly handles a root cause, exposing the root cause just like NestedChecked/RuntimeException does.
NestedRuntimeException	Handy class for wrapping runtime Exceptions with a root cause.

Package org.springframework.core Description

Provides basic classes for exception handling and version detection, and other core helpers that are not specific to any part of the framework.