Reloading beans

[rajiv.roopan]

Hello, I'm pretty new to spring and it think it's just great! I was wondering if anyone knew how to reload a bean? Or re-initialize a bean from it's definition?

thanks!
rajiv

[Injecteer]

3 ways:

1. Maybe you just need a ptototype?
2. Use AppContext.refreshBeanFactory() (or something like that). That'll reload the whole context.
3. Try looking at "7.11. Using TargetSources" in the ref, if you need something more sophisticated

[Costin Leau]

Use applicationContext.refresh()