Spring bean initialization with multiple-arg method

Question

I would like to create the following Spring bean (a JMX monitor) which has a method setThresholds(Number highThreshold,Number lowThreshold).

Could I invo

Answer 1

I've never seen this done. The big idea of Spring is that you create and initialise straight forward beans. Therefore the only methods that will be called are therefore single argument Setters(...) and Constructors. The definition of what's supported will be in the following schema:

http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd

Your way around this problem is to get your bean to implement InitializingBean and call your method in the void afterPropertiesSet() method:

eg:

public void setHighThreadHold(Number highThreshHold) {}

public void setLowThreashHold(Number lowThreadHold) {}


public void afterPropertiesSet() {
    setThresholds(highThreshold,lowThreshold);
}