List Question

[billy_cool]

Given 2 classes -
Object A, Object B

How do you inject object B which happens to return a list into Object A so that Object A can use this list readily without having to worry about creating this list.

Object B is return a list, that is needed by Object A. How to do this. I am not talking about hard coding this list into spring.xml i.e using <list></list>
This list is coming from database that will be used by Object A.

[sami25]

Hi,

Object B is return a list, that is needed by Object A. How to do this. I am not talking about hard coding this list into spring.xml i.e using <list></list>
This list is coming from database that will be used by Object A.

you could try the following,

Object A wants to use the list that is provided by Object B,

Inject Object B into Object A from the constructor and use the list of Object B.


now Object B wants to prepare the list from the DB,

you could write a DAO if you want layered design, this dao does the job of reading from the DB and returning a list.

inject the DAO into the object B and call the DAO's method in the object B's method.

you could also use the init method provided by the spring framework that you can provide in the object B and object A to use to achieve this functionality.

[billy_cool]

Thanks Sami...I'll give it a whirl.