Introducing Spring Framework

Chapter 18 ■ Spring and Groovy
//Equivalent to:
It is necessary to add a defined namespace, and if a bean uses some attributes, then the name must be after the
class definition, followed by a colon and the value; if the attribute contains a hyphen, it must be enclosed between
single quotes. The namespace must be first on the line of the beans, separated by a space and the URL between
double quotes and after a colon.
xmlns name:"URL"
beanId ( class, attribute : value [, attibute : value, 'attribute-xy': value ])
Example:
beans {
}
xmlns rabbit:"http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit"
rabbit.'connection-factory'(id:"rabbitConnectionFactory", host:"localhost")
//Equivalent to:
As you can see, you can simplify your bean definitions by using the Spring DSL and you can remove all the
verbosity from the XML. Of course, you can still use the XML together with this new Spring DSL. Imagine that you
have a library already that contains an XML configuration and you want it to be part of the Spring DSL. How can you
include it? Very easily; just use the importBeans and that’s it. See Listing 18-8.
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