4.25. The Javabean Cartridge and Factories

The Javabean Cartridge allows you to use factories to create beans. In these cases you do not need to use a public parameterless constructor. You do not need to have defined the actual class name in the class attribute. Any of the object's interfaces suffice. However you can only bind to that interface's methods. (Even if you define a factory, you must always set the class attribute in the bean definition.)

The factory definition is set in the bean element's factory attribute. The default factory definition language looks like this:

some.package.FactoryClass#staticMethod{.instanceMethod}

some.package.FactoryClass#staticMethod{.instanceMethod}

Use this basic definition language to define a static public parameterless method that Smooks will call to create the bean. (The instanceMethod part is optional. If you set it, it defines the method that will be called on the object that is returned from static method, which should create the bean. The { } characters are only there to illustrate that the part is optional and should be left out of the actual definition.)