Designed primarily for use in conjunction with web applications
to provide a convenient mechanism for configuring the container
programmatically.
ApplicationContextInitializer implementations are specified through the
new "contextInitializerClasses" servlet context parameter, then detected
and invoked by ContextLoader in its customizeContext() method.
In any case, the semantics of ApplicationContextInitializer's
initialize(ConfigurableApplicationContext) method require that
invocation occur *prior* to refreshing the application context.
ACI implementations may also implement Ordered/PriorityOrdered and
ContextLoader will sort instances appropriately prior to invocation.
Specifically, this new support provides a straightforward way to
programmatically access the container's Environment for the purpose
of adding, removing or otherwise manipulating PropertySource objects.
See Javadoc for further details.
Also note that ApplicationContextInitializer semantics overlap to
some degree with Servlet 3.0's notion of ServletContainerInitializer
classes. As Spring 3.1 development progresses, we'll likely see
these two come together and further influence one another.
DefaultWebEnvironment automatically adds a JndiPropertySource if
a "jndiPropertySourceEnabled" property is detected in any of the
other other default property sources.
* PropertySources is now an Iterable<PropertySource> in favor of
exposing an asList() method
* Otherwise reduced the set of methods exposed by PropertySources to the
absolute minimum
* Added Javadoc for both types and all methods
PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer accommodates recent changes in
Environment and PropertySource APIs, e.g. no longer assuming enumerability
of property names.
PSPC reuses as much functionality as possible from
AbstractPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, but overrides
postProcessBeanFactory() and defines its own variation on
processProperties() in order to accept a PropertyResolver rather than
a PropertySource.
AbstractPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer introduces doProcessProperties()
method to encapsulate that which is actually common, such as the
visiting of each bean definition once a StringValueResolver has been
created in the subclass.
* Environment now extends PropertyResolver
* Environment no longer exposes resolver and sources
* PropertySource is String,Object instead of String,String
* PropertySource no longer assumes enumerability of property names
* Introduced EnumerablePropertySource for those that do have enumerable property names
Arjen Poutsma
Sam Brannen
Juergen Hoeller
Keith Donald
Andy Clement
Chris Beams