Getting reference of factory bean in context file?

[pathakn]

Is there a way to get the reference to a Factory bean from within the context file? I know there is programmtically a way by prepending '&' to the bean name, but I want to refer to a factory bean from within my bean context definition file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Nilesh

[cmgharris]

It's the same as programatically - precede the bean id with &
However, because it's xml, you have to use an entity: &

so:
<ref bean="&amp;myFactoryBean"/>

HTH

[pathakn]

Well that worked.

Many Thanks,
-Nilesh