Bean Name Aware 

Spring Inversion of Control (IoC) also known as Dependency Injection (DI) is a process by which objects define their dependencies with collaborating objects. Spring provides BeanNameAware interface which allows us to have access to name of the bean defined in bean definition.

BeanNameAware.java  
package org.springframework.beans.factory;

public abstract interface BeanNameAware
{
  public abstract void setBeanName(String paramString);
}

File Name  :   /SpringCore001/conf/aware/bean_name.xml

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/spring3/basic/SimpleBeanNameAware.java

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.basic; import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanNameAware; public class SimpleBeanNameAware implements BeanNameAware {   private String simpleProp;   public String getSimpleProp() {     return simpleProp;   }   public void setSimpleProp(String simpleProp) {     this.simpleProp = simpleProp;   }   @Override   public void setBeanName(String name) {     System.out.println("In setBeanName : " + name);          //Initialize property with bean name      this.simpleProp = name;   }      public String toString() {     return "SimpleBeanNameAware[" + simpleProp + "]";   } }

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/spring3/tests/aware/BeanNameAwareTest.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.tests.aware; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; import com.bethecoder.tutorials.spring3.basic.SimpleBeanNameAware; public class BeanNameAwareTest {   /**    * @param args    */   public static void main(String[] args) {     System.out.println("Initializing ApplicationContext");     ApplicationContext factory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("bean_name.xml");     System.out.println("ApplicationContext Initialized");          SimpleBeanNameAware first = (SimpleBeanNameAware) factory.getBean("first");     System.out.println(first);     SimpleBeanNameAware second = (SimpleBeanNameAware) factory.getBean("second");     System.out.println(second);   } }

Initializing ApplicationContext
ApplicationContext Initialized

In setBeanName : first
SimpleBeanNameAware[first]

In setBeanName : second
SimpleBeanNameAware[second]