org.beanlet
Annotation Type Factory

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=METHOD)
public @interface Factory

Beanlets implementing this annotation can act as a factory.

Method Constraints

The method on which the Call annotation is applied MUST fulfill all of the following criteria:

• The method MUST NOT have any parameters.
• The return type of the method MAY be void or Object (covariant return types are allowed).
• The method MAY throw a checked exception.
• The method on which Factory is applied MAY be public, protected, package private or private.
• The method MUST NOT be static.
• The method MAY be final.

XML Representation

The following xml-fragment shows how to express this annotation in xml. The italic attribute of the 'factory' tag is used to identify the element to which this annotation is applied. The other attribute can be specified optionally if the annotation specifies a default value for the particular annotation method.

<beanlets xmlns="http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet/beanlet_1_0.xsd">
  <beanlet name="foo" type="com.acme.Foo">
    <factory method="bar" description=""/>
  </beanlet>
</beanlets>

See Also:

FactoryBeanlet

Optional Element Summary

String

description

description

public abstract String description

Default:

""