org.springframework.beans.factory.xml
Interface XmlBeanDefinitionParser

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser

public interface XmlBeanDefinitionParser

Strategy interface for parsing XML bean definitions. Used by XmlBeanDefinitionReader for actually parsing a DOM document.

Instantiated per document to parse: Implementations can hold state in instance variables during the execution of the registerBeanDefinitions method, for example global settings that are defined for all bean definitions in the document.

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

Since: 18.12.2003

See Also: XmlBeanDefinitionReader.setParserClass(java.lang.Class)

public void registerBeanDefinitions(BeanDefinitionRegistry beanFactory, ClassLoader beanClassLoader, Document doc, Resource resource)
                              throws org.springframework.beans.BeansException

Parse bean definitions from the given DOM document, and register them with the given bean factory.

Parameters:

beanFactory - the bean factory to register the bean definitions with

beanClassLoader - class loader to use for bean classes (null suggests to not load bean classes but just register bean definitions with class names, for example when just registering beans in a registry but not actually instantiating them in a factory)

doc - the DOM document

resource - descriptor of the original XML resource (useful for displaying parse errors)

Throws:

BeansException - in case of parsing errors