This bean factory interface is not meant to be used in normal application code: Stick to org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory or org.springframework.beans.factory.ListableBeanFactory for typical needs. This extended interface is just meant to allow for framework-internal plug'n'play and for special access to bean factory configuration methods.

Note that the parent cannot be changed: It should only be set outside a constructor if it isn't available at the time of factory instantiation.

Note that this class loader will only apply to bean definitions that do not carry a resolved bean class yet. This is the case as of Spring 2.0 by default: Bean definitions only carry bean class names, to be resolved once the factory processes the bean definition.

A temporary ClassLoader is usually just specified if load-time weaving is involved, to make sure that actual bean classes are loaded as lazily as possible. The temporary loader is then removed once the BeanFactory completes its bootstrap phase.

Turn this flag off to enable hot-refreshing of bean definition objects and in particular bean classes. If this flag is off, any creation of a bean instance will re-query the bean class loader for newly resolved classes.

Such a registrar creates new PropertyEditor instances and registers them on the given registry, fresh for each bean creation attempt. This avoids the need for synchronization on custom editors; hence, it is generally preferable to use this method instead of registerCustomEditor(java.lang.Class,java.lang.Class).

Note that this method will register a shared custom editor instance; access to that instance will be synchronized for thread-safety. It is generally preferable to use addPropertyEditorRegistrar(org.springframework.beans.PropertyEditorRegistrar) instead of this method, to avoid for the need for synchronization on custom editors.

Note that this method will register a shared custom editor instance; access to that instance will be synchronized for thread-safety. It is generally preferable to use addPropertyEditorRegistrar(org.springframework.beans.PropertyEditorRegistrar) instead of this method, to avoid for the need for synchronization on custom editors.

This will override the default PropertyEditor mechanism and hence make any custom editors or custom editor registrars irrelevant.

If the default PropertyEditor mechanism is active, the returned TypeConverter will be aware of all custom editors that have been registered.

This will only return the names of explicitly registered scopes. Built-in scopes such as "singleton" and "prototype" won't be exposed.

This will only return explicitly registered scopes. Built-in scopes such as "singleton" and "prototype" won't be exposed.

Should include all standard configuration settings as well as BeanPostProcessors, Scopes, and factory-specific internal settings. Should not include any metadata of actual bean definitions, such as BeanDefinition objects and bean name aliases.

Typically invoked during factory configuration, but can also be used for runtime registration of aliases. Therefore, a factory implementation should synchronize alias access.

The value resolver may for example resolve placeholders in target bean names and even in alias names.

Any exception that arises during destruction should be caught and logged instead of propagated to the caller of this method.

Any exception that arises during destruction should be caught and logged instead of propagated to the caller of this method.

Any exception that arises during destruction should be caught and logged instead of propagated to the caller of this method.