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Spring XML Namespaces handling

You all know, that spring supports xml namespaces for defining custom bean definition.

For example, if you want to set mvn annotation driven benavior, you can write such code in your xml

As you noticed, there is no <bean … /> in this piece of code, but there is

So, who is responsible for handling this namespaces?

Answer is: NamespaceHandler

For example, here is AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser implementation.

Every Spring namespace has an associated NamespaceHandler implementation. The namespace schemas are mapped to schema files inside Spring JARs in various spring.schemas files.

The XML schema namespaces are also mapped to handler classes in spring.handlers files (several as each Spring JAR might introduce different namespaces). For your convenience here is a list of most common namespaces:

Spring core

aop - AopNamespaceHandler c - SimpleConstructorNamespaceHandler cache - CacheNamespaceHandler context - ContextNamespaceHandler jdbc - JdbcNamespaceHandler jee - JeeNamespaceHandler jms - JmsNamespaceHandler lang - LangNamespaceHandler mvc - MvcNamespaceHandler oxm - OxmNamespaceHandler p - SimplePropertyNamespaceHandler task - TaskNamespaceHandler tx - TxNamespaceHandler util - UtilNamespaceHandler Spring Security

security - SecurityNamespaceHandler oauth - OAuthSecurityNamespaceHandler Spring integration

int - IntegrationNamespaceHandler amqp - AmqpNamespaceHandler event - EventNamespaceHandler feed - FeedNamespaceHandler file - FileNamespaceHandler ftp - FtpNamespaceHandler gemfire - GemfireIntegrationNamespaceHandler groovy - GroovyNamespaceHandler http - HttpNamespaceHandler ip - IpNamespaceHandler jdbc - JdbcNamespaceHandler jms - JmsNamespaceHandler jmx - JmxNamespaceHandler mail - MailNamespaceHandler redis - RedisNamespaceHandler rmi - RmiNamespaceHandler script - ScriptNamespaceHandler security - IntegrationSecurityNamespaceHandler sftp - SftpNamespaceHandler stream - StreamNamespaceHandler twitter - TwitterNamespaceHandler ws - WsNamespaceHandler xml - IntegrationXmlNamespaceHandler xmpp - XmppNamespaceHandler