Using ApplicationContext Framework for persisting Javabeans

[ptah]

Is it possible to take network of beans and dump them to an xml file application context that can be loaded by the ApplicationContext framework?

[Costin Leau]

Not at the moment - I think the issue was discussed on the forum some time ago. Try doing a search both on the forum and JIRA and see what you can find.

[ptah]

i cannot find anything on JIRA and only this on the forum:
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=21933

[Costin Leau]

I had issues finding the posts and JIRA issues I recalled too. IIRC, for Spring 2.x (1.3 back then) support for saving the configuration to XML was proposed on JIRA though I'm not sure what the resolution for it was.
There is no support right now out of the box though one can take the beans configuration (a bunch of bean definitions) and try to save it as XML.