File: context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans>
<bean id="nonStaticFactory" class="NonStaticFactory"/>
<bean id="testBeanObtainedViaNonStaticFactory"
factory-bean="nonStaticFactory" factory-method="getTestBeanInstance"/>
</beans>
File: Main.java
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
class Main {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml");
TestBean testBeanObtainedViaStaticFactory = (TestBean) ctx
.getBean("testBeanObtainedViaNonStaticFactory");
}
}
class NonStaticFactory {
public TestBean getTestBeanInstance() {
return new TestBean();
}
}
class TestBean {
}
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