Info about Spring IDE Image Decorators

[pjbrownva]

I would like to know if someone could document the meaning of the different spring IDE image decorators.

For example, some of my spring beans have a red asterisk next to them, and others have the letters F, C or A next to them.

I have searched the documentation, the web, the wiki and the forums, but I have been unable to find any documentation about the different Spring IDE decorators and what they mean.

If anyone can provide a listing (or picture of) the different decorators and their meanings, that would be very useful.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

-Phil

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi Phil,

that is a very good questions. I opened a JIRA to track this.

- red asterisk -> prototype bean
- F -> factory bean
- C -> child bean (having a parent bean)
- A -> abstract bean

HTH,

Christian

[pjbrownva]

Thank you, Christian.

That helps alot. Particularly knowing that the red *
means that the bean is a prototype will save me a lot of time.
I need to review a large system specifically with regard to
which beans are/should be singletons and which ones should
be prototypes. The red *, and your info, just made this task
a lot faster and much less error prone.

P.S. - for any newbies that might read this thread, when you define a bean the singleton="true" and singleton="false" settings can control if a bean
should be a singleton or a prototype.