Why specify id with parent attribute in inner beans?

[hucmuc]

I have following when defining a constructor of a bean:

 <constructor-arg>
      <bean id="sf1" parent="default.sessionFactory">
          <property name="dataSource">
            <bean class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
                 <property name="jndiName">
                         <value>java&#58;comp/env/jdbc/ds</value>
                 </property>
             </bean>
            </property>
       </bean>
</constructor-arg>

Why am I forced to name my bean (i'm calling it sf1).

However, if I don't use the parent and define the whole bean then I don't need to specify the id (ids for inner beans are meaningless).

I would like to treat these "inner beans" like annoymous classes where I don't need to specify ids since it should only exist in the inner portion of definition (i.e sf1 should never be accessible anywhere else).

dino

[Colin Sampaleanu]

Are you saying you're getting an error if you don't define the id ("sf1" in this case?). That shouldn't be the case. I would file a bug report if that's happening...

[hucmuc]

Hopefully, today I will write a small app with an xml file to reproduce this problem and submit a bug report.

DIno

[hucmuc]

How do I report this as a bug?

dino

[Colin Sampaleanu]

In Spring's Jira instance:

http://opensource.atlassian.com/proj...Dashboard.jspa

Thanks,