How can a bean reference back to its context

[Randy Johnson]

For a bean which is instantiated via the context.getBean() method, how can it reference back to its parent context? I want to use the context to create additional beans, from within a bean which was created as above. I know I can do it by referring to another ApplicationContext.xml, but I'd like to define all of the beans once, in a single xml file.

[Alarmnummer]

Answer to your question:
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...textAware.html

But normally you don't implement such interfaces on your objects (objects remain totally unaware of Spring). I don't know enough about your problem, but I think a different approach would be better.