Also: SpringBeans
package

org.springframework.beans.factory.access

Helper infrastructure to locate and access bean factories.

Note: This package is only relevant for special sharing of bean factories, for example behind EJB facades. It is not used in a typical web application or standalone application.

Interfaces

BeanFactoryLocator Defines a contract for the lookup, use, and release of a BeanFactory, or a BeanFactory subclass such as an ApplicationContext
BeanFactoryReference Used to track a reference to a BeanFactory obtained through a BeanFactoryLocator

Classes

SingletonBeanFactoryLocator

Keyed-singleton implementation of BeanFactoryLocator, which accesses shared Spring BeanFactory instances. 

Exceptions

BootstrapException Exception thrown if a bean factory could not be loaded by a bootstrap class.