are beans from the xml updatable?

[cyber]

my case is like this, i define data in my xml for testing i.e. HashMap, ArrayList, Simple Beans and the like, i have no problem getting the values.

now can i change the values of those defined in the xml?

for example i defined

<bean id="list" class="java.util.ArrayList">
     <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                    <value>1</value>
                    <value>5</value>
                    <value>3</value>
            </list>
     </construnctor-arg>
</bean>

and in my code i did this:

List list = (List) applicationContext.getBean("list");
list.set(1,"2"); // change index 2 w/c is 5 to 2.

will the next retrieve of applicationContext.getBean("list") will return 1,2,3? of the original 1,5,3?

thanks

[irbouho]

1,2,3 if your bean is singleton
1,5,3 if your bean is protoype

[cyber]

when you say prototype, do you mean singleton="false"?

i believe by default spring creates the bean as singleton, i.e. singleton="true"

so what your saying is true, the value of the list will really be 1,2,3?

thanks.

[irbouho]

Yes.

Cheers.

[Costin Leau]

These are the type of questions where you can try 'coding' the answer yourself.