Last week I posted a teaser for a Ruby-based DSL for Spring configuration. Like so many things, I doubt I will ever have time to carry this through so I am posting the code here. Please run with this if you are interested.

Here's the approach I used:

• Create RubyBeanFactory as a subclass of XmlBeanFactory.
• Execute the loaded resource, and treat the result as XML. I used Ruby but you could easily plug in some other language.
• Create a helper (spring_config.rb) that defines a simple DSL instead of writing straight Ruby code.
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If you plan to use this in production you will want to:

• Refactor hard-coded stuff
• Extend the DSL to handle more than just a subset of the Spring config vocabulary