Implement a simple factory pattern with Spring 3 annotations

Question

I was wondering how I could implement the simple factory pattern with Spring 3 annotations. I saw in the documentation that you can create beans that call the factory class

Answer 1

You could also declaratively define a bean of type ServiceLocatorFactoryBean that will act as a Factory class. it supported by Spring 3.

A FactoryBean implementation that takes an interface which must have one or more methods with the signatures (typically, MyService getService() or MyService getService(String id)) and creates a dynamic proxy which implements that interface

Here's an example of implementing the Factory pattern using Spring

One more clearly example