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I am confused between ref and depends-on attribute in Spring.I read the spring doc but I am still confused.I wish to know the exact difference between the two and in which case which one shall be used.
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Spring ref attribute The ref attribute is a shortcut to the <ref> tag, used to refer to other beans for injection.
An inner bean definition does not require a defined id or name; if specified, the container does not use such a value as an identifier. The container also ignores the scope flag on creation: Inner beans are always anonymous and they are always created with the outer bean.
Dependency Injection is a fundamental aspect of the Spring framework, through which the Spring container “injects” objects into other objects or “dependencies”. Simply put, this allows for loose coupling of components and moves the responsibility of managing components onto the container.
From the official documentation: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/context/annotation/DependsOn.html
Beans on which the current bean depends. Any beans specified are guaranteed to be created by the container before this bean. Used infrequently in cases where a bean does not explicitly depend on another through properties or constructor arguments, but rather depends on the side effects of another bean's initialisation.
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