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package org.springframework.beans.factory;
/**
* Callback that allows a bean to be aware of the bean
* {@link ClassLoader class loader}; that is, the class loader used by the
* present bean factory to load bean classes.
*
* <p>This is mainly intended to be implemented by framework classes which
* have to pick up application classes by name despite themselves potentially
* being loaded from a shared class loader.
*
* <p>For a list of all bean lifecycle methods, see the
* {@link BeanFactory BeanFactory javadocs}.
*
* @author Juergen Hoeller
* @since 2.0
* @see BeanNameAware
* @see BeanFactoryAware
* @see InitializingBean
*/
public interface BeanClassLoaderAware {
/**
* Callback that supplies the bean {@link ClassLoader class loader} to
* a bean instance.
* <p>Invoked <i>after</i> the population of normal bean properties but
* <i>before</i> an initialization callback such as
* {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean InitializingBean's}
* {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean#afterPropertiesSet()}
* method or a custom init-method.
* @param classLoader the owning class loader; may be <code>null</code> in
* which case a default <code>ClassLoader</code> must be used, for example
* the <code>ClassLoader</code> obtained via
* {@link org.springframework.util.ClassUtils#getDefaultClassLoader()}
*/
void setBeanClassLoader(ClassLoader classLoader);
}