Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

Spring bean configuration best practices

In this section, we will see some of the best practices for configuring a bean in Spring:

• Use ID as bean identifiers:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beanshttp://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">          <!-- Bean Configuration definition describe here -->    <bean id="xxx" name="xxx" class=""/>    </beans>

In the preceding example, we identified the bean using id or name. We should use id to pick the bean instead of name. Usually, it does neither increase readability nor benefit any performance but it's just an industry ...