How to achieve conditional resource import in a Spring XML context?

Question

What I would like to achieve is the ability to "dynamically" (i.e. based on a property defined in a configuration file) enable/disable the importing of a child Spr

Answer 1

For the record, Robert Maldon explains how to accomplish conditional definition of beans in this post: http://robertmaldon.blogspot.com/2007/04/conditionally-defining-spring-beans.html. It is a bit long to copy it here (besides, I don't think I should copy-paste his article anyway).

The end result with this approach, adapted for your example, is:

It is certainly not so simple as Stephen C's solution, but it is much more poweful.