Reference as class not object

[lukasbradley]

Is there a way to define a bean/reference as the class of an object type, and not a single object reference?

For example, this is what I effectively want:



<bean id="endpointCreateRequest_class" class="my.path.to.MyWhatever.class" />


Is something like this possible?

[vincent_ray21]

You can try this (workaround):



<bean id="endpointCreateRequest_class" class="java.lang.Class" factory-method="forName">
<constructor-arg value="my.path.to.MyWhatever"/>
</bean>


HTH,
Vincent

[al0]

Sorry, but it is not very clear from explanation, what you want (and what for). May you elaborate some more?

Is there a way to define a bean/reference as the class of an object type, and not a single object reference?

For example, this is what I effectively want:



<bean id="endpointCreateRequest_class" class="my.path.to.MyWhatever.class" />


Is something like this possible?