Core to the Spring Framework is a concept of bean factories. Spring bean factories follow the concepts of the GoF Factory Design Pattern to provide the requestor fully configured objects. Under the covers when the Spring Framework is performing dependency injection on your beans, Spring itself will use bean factories to obtain a fully configured […]Continue reading

During the creation of Spring Beans, you can obtain the name of the bean by implementing the Spring interface – BeanNameAware. Then during the creation of Spring beans, the Spring Context will inject the name it has set for the bean. This is the name the Spring Bean factory will use as a reference to […]Continue reading