XML equivalent of @Configurable annotation in Spring

Question

Is there any XML equivalent of @Configurable annotation?

For example for the bean:

<bean class="org.obliquid.sherd.domain.SalesDocument" scope ="prototype">
    <property name="docType" ref="documentTypeProto"/>
</bean>

How can I tell that SalesDocument should be @Configurable?

Not an answer to your question, but if you need enhanced configuration support in spring, have a look at Constretto: https://github.com/constretto/constretto-core — ebaxt, Mar 17 '12 at 12:30

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '11 at 13:32

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No - the purpose of @Configurable to inject properties into objects that are not Spring beans. In your example SalesDocument is already a Spring bean, and docType will be injected.

answered Sep 08 '11 at 13:32

sourcedelica

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Not if I create it with new inside a DAO, though. – stivlo Sep 08 '11 at 14:36
In that case, don't use new, use applicationContext.getBean("salesDocument") – sourcedelica Sep 08 '11 at 15:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '12 at 23:38

There's no way to simply do this out of the box that I'm aware of.

One approach to achieve what you want is to look at using Spring AspectJ based AOP extensions. It'll be a lot of work, but if you know that your DAOs need limited configuration (probably the just the EntityManager?) it might be doable.

Look at the spring reference docs for details.

XML equivalent of @Configurable annotation in Spring

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