Also: SpringBeans
public interface

BeanFactoryAware

implements Aware
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryAware
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

Interface to be implemented by beans that wish to be aware of their owning BeanFactory.

For example, beans can look up collaborating beans via the factory (Dependency Lookup). Note that most beans will choose to receive references to collaborating beans via corresponding bean properties or constructor arguments (Dependency Injection).

For a list of all bean lifecycle methods, see the BeanFactory javadocs.

Summary

Public Methods
abstract void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory)
Callback that supplies the owning factory to a bean instance.

Public Methods

public abstract void setBeanFactory (BeanFactory beanFactory)

Also: SpringBeans

Callback that supplies the owning factory to a bean instance.

Invoked after the population of normal bean properties but before an initialization callback such as afterPropertiesSet() or a custom init-method.

Parameters
beanFactory owning BeanFactory (never null). The bean can immediately call methods on the factory.
Throws
BeansException in case of initialization errors