Question

I am trying to find a better what to do this. In Spring a lot of my classes need to load beans (objects) from XmlBeanFactory. So I put the following line into most of my classes

private static XmlBeanFactory beanFactory = new XmlBeanFactory(
            new ClassPathResource("config.xml"));

Does anyone know of a better what for me to do this so I don’t have to have this in most of my classes?

Answer 1

You can make your class implement BeanFactoryAware that will give you instance of the bean factory, so you could call one of BeanFactory.getBean(..) methods directly.

public class MyFactoryBean implements BeanFactoryAware {
  private BeanFactory beanFactory;

  public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory) {
    this.beanFactory = beanFactory;
  }

  public void someMethod() {
    MyBean myBean = beanFactory.getBean("myBean", MyBean.class);
    ...
  }
}