Interface Aware

All Known Subinterfaces:

BeanClassLoaderAware, BeanFactoryAware, BeanNameAware

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFactoryBean, AbstractServiceLoaderBasedFactoryBean, AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor, BeanConfigurerSupport, CustomAutowireConfigurer, CustomScopeConfigurer, FieldRetrievingFactoryBean, GenericTypeAwareAutowireCandidateResolver, ListFactoryBean, MapFactoryBean, MethodInvokingBean, MethodInvokingFactoryBean, ObjectFactoryCreatingFactoryBean, PlaceholderConfigurerSupport, PreferencesPlaceholderConfigurer, PropertyPathFactoryBean, PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, ProviderCreatingFactoryBean, QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver, ServiceFactoryBean, ServiceListFactoryBean, ServiceLoaderFactoryBean, ServiceLocatorFactoryBean, SetFactoryBean

public interface Aware

A marker superinterface indicating that a bean is eligible to be notified by the Spring container of a particular framework object through a callback-style method. The actual method signature is determined by individual subinterfaces but should typically consist of just one void-returning method that accepts a single argument.

Note that merely implementing Aware provides no default functionality. Rather, processing must be done explicitly, for example in a BeanPostProcessor. Refer to

invalid reference

org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor

for an example of processing specific *Aware interface callbacks.

Since:

3.1

Author:

Chris Beams, Juergen Hoeller