Comments on: Using Patterns to Suppliment your Spring Configuration http://javatech.org/2007/11/using-patterns-to-suppliment-your-spring-configuration/ The Bleeding Edge of Java Technology Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:15:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: darren.hicks http://javatech.org/2007/11/using-patterns-to-suppliment-your-spring-configuration/comment-page-1/#comment-67 darren.hicks Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:38:07 +0000 http://javatech.org/?p=19#comment-67 This will allow for a common line of code to be much more configurable on a per-deployment basis - awesome! One thing, though... It's probably best to use lazy-initialization on the SpringBeans to allow the overrides ( which are processed last ) to be the only implementation ever instantiated. Otherwise there may be crufty chaos and side-effects when unexpected resources are loaded, for example. Or if the overriden bean attached itself as a callback with another bean through some mechanism... This will allow for a common line of code to be much more configurable on a per-deployment basis – awesome!

One thing, though…

It’s probably best to use lazy-initialization on the SpringBeans to allow the overrides ( which are processed last ) to be the only implementation ever instantiated. Otherwise there may be crufty chaos and side-effects when unexpected resources are loaded, for example. Or if the overriden bean attached itself as a callback with another bean through some mechanism…

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