Spring 5 Design Patterns

Declaring Spring beans in an XML file

As with Java, we have to declare a class as a Spring bean into Spring's XML-based configuration by using an element of the Spring-beans schema as a <bean> element. The <bean> element is the XML analogue to JavaConfig's @Bean annotation. We add the following configuration to the XML-based configuration file:

    <bean id="transferService"         class="com.packt.patterninspring.chapter4.     bankapp.service.TransferServiceImpl"/> 
    <bean id="accountRepository"        class="com.packt.patterninspring.chapter4.     bankapp.repository.jdbc.JdbcAccountRepository"/> 
    <bean id="transferService"        class="com.packt.patterninspring.chapter4.     bankapp.repository.jdbc.JdbcTransferRepository"/> 

In the preceding code, I have created a very simple ...