[beginner] Accessing other beans

[bosh]

As the title says i am a beginner so excuse me if u use the wroung terminology, etc.

This is a fragment from my bean factory definition xml:

<beans>


<bean id="primaryDescriptionDAO" class="com.scientia.dao.hibernate.PrimaryDescripti onDAOImpl">
<property name="sessionFactory">
<ref bean="bisdirSessionFactory"/>
</property>
</bean>


<bean id="parseXML" class="com.scientia.busdir.xmlparsing.ParseXML">
<property name="primaryDescriptionDAO">
<ref local="primaryDescriptionDAO"/>
</property>
</bean>


...

</beans>

Bascially i have a parseXML bean and i want it to be able to access the primaryDescriptionDAO, i believe i have set this relationship up correctly in the above xml?

What i need to know it how do i now access the primaryDescriptionDAO bean from my parseXML code? Could someone provide me with a code snippet.

[Alarmnummer]

As the title says i am a beginner so excuse me if u use the wroung terminology, etc.

<bean id="parseXML" class="com.scientia.busdir.xmlparsing.ParseXML">
<property name="primaryDescriptionDAO">
<ref local="primaryDescriptionDAO"/>
</property>
</bean>



Bascially i have a parseXML bean and i want it to be able to access the primaryDescriptionDAO, i believe i have set this relationship up correctly in the above xml?

Yes

What i need to know it how do i now access the primaryDescriptionDAO bean from my parseXML code? Could someone provide me with a code snippet.

Just like any property you have set in the past.

class ParseXML{
    private PrimaryDescriptionDAO dao;

    public void setPrimaryDescriptionDAO(PrimaryDescriptionDAOImpl dao){this.dao = dao;}

   public void doSomething(){
            dao.removeAll();
  }
}

There is nothing magical about it.

[bosh]

What and spring will atomatically call the setter?

[Alarmnummer]

What and spring will atomatically call the setter?

Not automatically.. you told spring to do it:

<bean id="parseXML" class="com.scientia.busdir.xmlparsing.ParseXML">
   <property name="primaryDescriptionDAO">  <-- here you do it.
       <ref local="primaryDescriptionDAO"/> 
   </property>
</bean>