Spring Beans Configuration File Set

While using Spring framework in a Java project, you'll think about splitting your beans configuration into separate configuration files. To combine these files into a single Spring beans factory Spring IDE supports a notion of config sets (please refer to the Spring IDE Guide for the corresponding HOWTO).

This allows you to create a config set for the testing or another one for the runtime.

Configs sets are used by the BeansConfigValidator to resolve references to other beans.

A config set may contain BeansConfig files defined in other Spring projects which are listed in your project's project references (please refer to the Spring IDE Guide for the corresponding HOWTO).

You can also request the generation of a beans graph for the complete set, giving you a global view of your application's wired beans.

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See also: Spring IDE Guide, SpringProject, SpringProjectProperties, BeansConfig, BeansConfigValidator, BeansGraph