Spring AOP: Help in understanding the ProxyBeanFactory.

[Eoin Brosnan]

Hello,
I am working my way through Rob Harrop's Pro Spring and I am a little unclear about the following AOP example- Full example can be found here.

What I am wondering is why doesn't he just say

MyDependency bean1 = (MyDependency)ctx.getBean("myDependency1");

instead of creating the MyBean class and MyBean bean's? What is the reason for the extra steps?

Cheers.

[Mark Spritzler]

Well, in essence you have a few question in that one question. Meaning there are many subjects covered in that one question of yours.

I will simply state that that is old code. Meaning in real life you would not use the <bean> and the FactoryBean directly in your xml tags to setup AOP. Instead, you will use the aop namespace, like <aop:before>

I recommend finding books or tutorials out there that are more up to date.

Like "Pro Spring 2.5" from Apress, or wait a month or two for the better books on Spring 3.0

Mark