Spring Tutorial 03 - Write Spring Program Using BeanFactory

Before using the the BeanFactory in our Spring tutorial, let's first look into details of the this.

        There are 2 important packeges in the Spring which provides Inversion of Control (alternately called Dependency Injection) features.The BeanFactory provides an advanced configuration mechanism capable of managing beans (objects) of any nature, using potentially any kind of storage facility.

• org.springframework.beans
• org.springframework.context

The BeanFactory is the actual container which instantiates, configures, and manages a number of beans. These beans typically collaborate with one another, and thus have dependencies between themselves. A BeanFactory is represented by the interface org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory, for which there are multiple implementations. The most commonly used simple BeanFactory implementation is org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory. We need to instantiated the object mannually, this can be achieved as mentioned below.

ApplicationContexts are a subclass of BeanFactory, and most users end up using XML variants of ApplicationContext

BeanFactory factory=new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("Beans.xml"));

Let's understand above feature with the program.

Create a Java project with your desired name Let's say "springTutorial".

Add the required spring lib files, if you want to take reference, please follow Spring Tutorial 02 -My First 'Hello World' Program in Spring blog.

Create a package with name "org.javaIsEasy.springBeanFactoryExample".

Create a class with name of "Area.java".

Write below code in this file.

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package org.javaIsEasy.springBeanFactoryExample;

public class Area {

 public void calculateArea()

 {

  System.out.println("Area Has been calculated");

 }

}

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now create another class in the same package with name of "CallAreaApplication.java".

Write below code in this file.

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package org.javaIsEasy.springBeanFactoryExample;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;

import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;

public class CallAreaApplication {

public static void main(String[] args) {

 BeanFactory factory=new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("Beans.xml"));

 Area area=(Area)factory.getBean("area");

 area.calculateArea();

}

}

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Now create a "Bean.xml" file, in which we write beans mapping. Put this file in the Root folder.

write below code in the Beans.xml file.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

   <bean id="area" class="org.javaIsEasy.springBeanFactoryExample.Area">

      

   </bean>

</beans>

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Structure of the project.

Now let's run this program and what results comes. Open 'CallAreaApplication.java' file---> right click---> run as java application.

Output:

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17 Jun, 2013 11:21:59 PM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions

INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from file [C:\DATA\work\WorkSpace_Spring\SpringTutorial\Beans.xml]

Area Has been calculated

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'Area Has been calculated' is printed in the output.