Bean definition inheritance

[ram.gaurav]

Hi,

If in container i use Bean definition inheritance feature and make one bean use other as parent, then can i also access the methods from parent class or only the properties...

[libor.subcik]

Bean inheritance is a way to move common part of configuration to a parent bean. It has nothing to do with Java class inheritance. So there is no parent class, there is only a bean target class that can be configured either in a child bean or its parent bean definition. When you have bean A as parent and bean B as its child, when creating B, a merged definition of A and B is used (only one target class, properties elements are merged).
>> can i also access the methods from parent class or only the properties...
In a bean definition, you can access properties (like in any other bean definition). In a class instance, you can access all methods of the target bean class.