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I have just broken up a Spring bean configuration file into smaller external files and have used the the "import" directive to include them in my Spring Test application context XML file.
But whenever I reference one of the beans from the imported files I get a warning within Eclipse/STS/Spring XML editor complaining that "referenced bean 'foo' not found"
Is this is a bug or is it me? It's really annoying because I don't want to disable the warning, yet at my company we try to eliminate all warnings.
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An alternative way to import the bean is to use the SpringApplicationBuilder's sources method. Since we have already imported the bean, the line is commented. @Autowired private TimeService timeService; Now that the bean is registered, we can inject it into the field.
In Spring we need to use <ref> element to inform spring container about the object dependency. In Spring, beans can "access" to each other by specify the bean references in the same or different bean configuration file.In spring we can write multiple configuration xml file.
A bean is an object that is instantiated, assembled, and otherwise managed by a Spring IoC container. These beans are created with the configuration metadata that you supply to the container. For example, in the form of XML <bean/> definitions which you have already seen in the previous chapters.
It really annoyed me too!
I'm not sure when this feature was introduced, but with later versions it's possible to add this support.
I don't understand why it's not checked by default, but it works like a charm after you have enabled it!
If you don't have this option with your version, I will highly recommend to download SpringSource's STS with all necessary Eclipse plugins bundled.
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