//File: lookup.xml
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans>
<bean id="helper" class="MyHelper" singleton="false"/>
<bean id="abstractLookupBean" class="AbstractLookupDemoBean">
<lookup-method name="getMyHelper" bean="helper"/>
</bean>
<bean id="standardLookupBean" class="StandardLookupDemoBean">
<property name="myHelper">
<ref local="helper"/>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="factoryLookupBean" class="BeanFactoryAwareLookupDemoBean"/>
</beans>



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public interface DemoBean {

public MyHelper getMyHelper();
public void someOperation();
}



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public class MyHelper {

public void doSomethingHelpful() {
// do something!
}
}

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public class StandardLookupDemoBean implements DemoBean {

private MyHelper helper;

public void setMyHelper(MyHelper helper) {
this.helper = helper;
}

public MyHelper getMyHelper() {
return this.helper;
}

public void someOperation() {
helper.doSomethingHelpful();
}
}

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public abstract class AbstractLookupDemoBean implements DemoBean {

public abstract MyHelper getMyHelper();

public void someOperation() {
getMyHelper().doSomethingHelpful();
}
}


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import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryAware;

public class BeanFactoryAwareLookupDemoBean implements BeanFactoryAware,
DemoBean {

private BeanFactory factory = null;

public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory factory) throws BeansException {
this.factory = factory;
}

public MyHelper getMyHelper() {
return (MyHelper) factory.getBean("helper");
}

public void someOperation() {
getMyHelper().doSomethingHelpful();
}

}
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import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;
import org.springframework.util.StopWatch;

public class LookupPerformance {

public static void main(String[] args) {

BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource(
"build/lookup.xml"));

DemoBean abstractBean = (DemoBean) factory.getBean("abstractLookupBean");
DemoBean factoryBean = (DemoBean) factory.getBean("factoryLookupBean");

testPerf(abstractBean);
testPerf(factoryBean);
}

public static void testPerf(DemoBean bean) {
StopWatch stopWatch = new StopWatch();
stopWatch.start("perfTest");

for (int x = 0; x < 1000000; x++) {
MyHelper helper = bean.getMyHelper();
helper.doSomethingHelpful();
}

stopWatch.stop();

System.out.println("1000000 gets took "
+ stopWatch.getTotalTimeSeconds() + " seconds");
}
}