factory-method annoyance

[Lou Rayman]

Hi,

I'm using Spring to connect to an old CORBA server, and I want to use the ORB.init method (the static factory method for obtaining the ORB) from XML.
The following XML snippet works fine:

		<bean id="theORB" class="org.omg.CORBA.ORB" factory-method="init">
		<constructor-arg>
			<list>
				<!--value>this is junk</value-->
			</list>
		</constructor-arg>
		<constructor-arg>
			<props>
				<prop key="org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass">etc</prop>
				<prop key="org.omg.CORBA.ORBSingletonClass">etc</prop>
			</props>
		</constructor-arg>
	</bean>
	
	<bean id="dealServerRef" class="CorbaClientFactory">
		<property name="orb">
			<ref bean="theORB"/>
		</property>
		<property name="targetClass">
			<value>CorbalServer</value>
		</property>
		<property name="corbaName">
			<value>CorbaServerName</value>
		</property>
	</bean>

this works fine but, the xml line with the factrory-method is always tagged with this error:

Attribute "factory-method" must be declared for element type "bean"

which prevents the "bean graph" panel from coming up :cry:

I've tried different DOCTYPE headers, all to no avail.

--
Lou Rayman

lrayman ---at--- lehman ---dot--- com

[Alef Arendsen]

From http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd:

<!ATTLIST bean factory-method CDATA #IMPLIED>

Maybe your IDEs cache is out-of-date, the DTD does declare the attribute.

[Lou Rayman]

i see - the copy of spring-core.dtd buried in the plugins directory is out of date. is there a safe way to upgrade it?

[Torsten Juergeleit]

Lou,

if you are using XmlBuddy then please refer to Assaf's workaround described in thread http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=10957 .

Cheers,
Torsten