spring-framework/org.springframework.web.por.../src
Chris Beams 5e6912302a Introduce "Aware" superinterface
All existing *Aware interfaces have been refactored to extend this
new marker interface, serving two purposes:

    * Easy access to a type hierarchy that can answer the question
      "What *Aware interfaces are available?", without requiring
      text-based searches. Also clearly excludes false positives like
      TargetClassAware and ParamAware, which while similarly named,
      are not semantically similar to traditional *Aware interfaces
      in Spring.

    * Minor potential performance improvements in
      AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory and
      ApplicationContextAwareProcessor. Both have blocks of sequential
      instanceof checks in order to invoke any *Aware interface callback
      methods. For a bean that implements none of these interfaces,
      the whole sequence can be avoided by guarding first with
          if (bean instanceof Aware) {
              ...
          }

Implementors of custom *Aware-style interfaces (and presumably
the BeanPostProcessors that handle them), are encouraged to refactor to
extending this interface for consistency with the framework as well as
the points above.
2011-01-03 10:13:57 +00:00
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main/java Introduce "Aware" superinterface 2011-01-03 10:13:57 +00:00
test Merge 3.1.0 development branch into trunk 2010-10-25 19:48:20 +00:00