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package org.springframework.beans.factory.xml;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;

/**
 * Convenience extension of {@link DefaultListableBeanFactory} that reads bean definitions
 * from an XML document. Delegates to {@link XmlBeanDefinitionReader} underneath; effectively
 * equivalent to using an XmlBeanDefinitionReader with a DefaultListableBeanFactory.
 *
 * <p>The structure, element and attribute names of the required XML document
 * are hard-coded in this class. (Of course a transform could be run if necessary
 * to produce this format). "beans" doesn't need to be the root element of the XML
 * document: This class will parse all bean definition elements in the XML file.
 *
 * <p>This class registers each bean definition with the {@link DefaultListableBeanFactory}
 * superclass, and relies on the latter's implementation of the {@link BeanFactory} interface.
 * It supports singletons, prototypes, and references to either of these kinds of bean.
 * See "spring-beans-2.0.dtd" for details on options and configuration style.
 *
 * <p><b>For advanced needs, consider using a {@link DefaultListableBeanFactory} with
 * an {@link XmlBeanDefinitionReader}.</b> The latter allows for reading from multiple XML
 * resources and is highly configurable in its actual XML parsing behavior.
 *
 * @author Rod Johnson
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @since 15 April 2001
 * @see org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory
 * @see XmlBeanDefinitionReader
 */
public class XmlBeanFactory extends DefaultListableBeanFactory {

	private final XmlBeanDefinitionReader reader = new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(this);


	/**
	 * Create a new XmlBeanFactory with the given resource,
	 * which must be parsable using DOM.
	 * @param resource XML resource to load bean definitions from
	 * @throws BeansException in case of loading or parsing errors
	 */
	public XmlBeanFactory(Resource resource) throws BeansException {
		this(resource, null);
	}

	/**
	 * Create a new XmlBeanFactory with the given input stream,
	 * which must be parsable using DOM.
	 * @param resource XML resource to load bean definitions from
	 * @param parentBeanFactory parent bean factory
	 * @throws BeansException in case of loading or parsing errors
	 */
	public XmlBeanFactory(Resource resource, BeanFactory parentBeanFactory) throws BeansException {
		super(parentBeanFactory);
		this.reader.loadBeanDefinitions(resource);
	}

}