spring 2.0 extensible xml authoring help

[bikerboy]

I'm new to the extensible xml authoring support in spring 2.0 so please bear with me if my question sounds very basic.

I'm trying to simplify the bean definition files that we have in our product and am not able to find a solution to simplify a bean definition which looks something like below:

<bean id="fooId" class="mypackage.FooClass" singleton="true">
<property name="text" value="foo" />
</bean>

<bean id="barId" class="mypackage.BarClass">
<property name="refBean" ref="fooId" />
</bean>

to something like:

<mynamespace:foo text="foo"/>
<mynamespace:bar refBean="fooId"/>

Basically, I'm not sure whether there is some neat way to define a BeanDefinitionParser implementation for element "mynamespace:bar" so that I can specify in its bean definition that I want to use the singleton bean with id=fooId?

Thanks in advance for the help

[Colin Yates]

I have no experience with it myself, but have you read http://static.springframework.org/sp...sible-xml.html

[bikerboy]

Yeah, I went thru that document but unfortunately that talks about the simple case of how to set up the simple properties. Thanks.

[bikerboy]

I found a quick fix to do this in the BeanDefinitionParser impl. Basically, I replicated what the BeanFactory does in the normal XML bean definition parser which is to associate a RuntimeBeanReference to the property and then add it to the bean defintion. So, the example mentioned above would look something like:

beanDef.getPropertyValues().addPropertyValue(new PropertyValue("refBean", new RuntimeBeanReference("fooId")));

[rotlis]

Can you point out to any working(and downloadable) sample project for xml authoring? Or may be share yours? I am trying to migrate some of my old projects and I am getting all bunch of errors about missing schema and not known namespace handler.

[hneiper]

beanDef.getPropertyValues().addPropertyValue(new PropertyValue("refBean", new RuntimeBeanReference("fooId")));

thx for the advice above, works gr8