Accessing a bean with a dot(.) in its ID

Question

In a flow definition, I am trying to access a bean that has a dot in its ID

(example: <evaluate expression="bus.MyServiceFacade.someAction()" />

However, it does not work. SWF tries to find a bean "bus" instead.

Initially, I got over it by using a helper bean to load the required bean, but the solution is inelegant and uncomfortable. The use of alias'es is also out of the question since the beans are part of a large system and I cannot tamper with them.

In a nutshell, none of the solution allowed me to refernce the bean directly by using its original name. Is that even possible in the current SWF release?

Answer 1

I was able to do this by using both the bean accessor (@) symbol and single-quotes around the name of the bean.

Using your example: #{@'bus.MyServiceFacade'.someAction()}