Use of Spring XML namespace with JavaConfig

[alexclement]

Hi all,

Is it possible to use Spring XML namespaces with JavaConfig right now?
Something like this (spring security namespace) would be really cool to do:

@Configuration
public class SecurityConfig {

	@Http(autoConfig=true, accessDeniedPage="/login.html", children= {
		interceptUrl(pattern="/secure/**", access="ROLE_USER"),
		interceptUrl(pattern="/**", access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY"),
		formLogin(authenticationFailureUrl="/login.html", defaultTargetUrl="/index.html", loginPage="login.html")
	})	
	Object http() {
		return null;
	}
}

These annotations should be very easy to intercept and interpret with AOP and the appropriate Builder.
No needs to parse XML anymore which means that bean definition parsers and bean definitions would be not required anymore. Huge improvement!

[krancour]

This capability doesn't currently exist, but according to a presentation I saw at SpringOne last week, such a feature is being more-or-less "incubated" in 3.1. Don't expect support for all custom config namespaces to be used in this fashion out of the box, but I got the sense that it is indeed on the horizon.