Create an instance of Abstract Class through Spring

[Gaurav Ram]

Hi,

As per the java rule we cannot Instantiated Abstract class, thats 100% right.

But my confusion arise when i saw the strange behavior in Spring, that, i have created one Abstract class and in that i have created on lookup method and thats also abstract.Then in my Spring config file i have written the below code:

  <bean id="abstractTestClass"
class="com.ram.abstracttest.AbstractTestClass">
<lookup-method name="getLatestObjectOfBean" bean="beanToGetFromLookupMethod"/>
</bean>  

and i run my container and this bean initialized successfully, but when i remove the code <lookup-method name="getLatestObjectOfBean" bean="beanToGetFromLookupMethod"/> from above bean defination then it starts giving error which is right that it should not create an instance of Abstract Bean.

Can you please explain the reason for this.?

[Christophe Verré]

The lookup method injection is described here. Do you still have any doubt after reading it ?