Initializing collections in spring

This is 9 of 16 parts of tutorial series

Tutorial Content: Spring tutorial for beginners

• Introduction to spring framework
• Spring interview questions
• Dependency injection(ioc) in spring
• Spring XML based configuration example
• Spring java based configuaration
• Dependency injection via setter method in spring
• Dependency injection via constructor in spring
• Spring Bean scopes with examples
• Initializing collections in spring
• Beans Autowiring in spring
• Inheritance in Spring
• Spring ApplicationContext
• Spring lifetime callbacks
• BeanPostProcessors in Spring
• Annotation based Configuration in spring
• Spring AOP tutorial

In previous posts we have seen how to initialize any string or reference via property’s value tag or ref tag.In this post we will see how to initialize any collections in spring.
For configuring spring in your eclipse ide please refer  hello world example

1.Country.java:

package org.arpit.javapostsforlearning;

import java.util.List;

public class Country {

    String countryName;
    List listOfStates;
    public String getCountryName() {
        return countryName;
    }
    public void setCountryName(String countryName) {
        this.countryName = countryName;
    }
    public List getListOfStates() {
        return listOfStates;
    }
    public void setListOfStates(List listOfStates) {
        this.listOfStates = listOfStates;
    }

    public void printListOfStates()
    {
        System.out.println("Some of states in india are:");
        for(String state:listOfStates)
        {
            System.out.println(state);
        }
    }
}

 
  
   
    Maharastra
    Madhya Pradesh
    Rajasthan
   

  
 

package org.arpit.javapostsforlearning;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class InitializingCollectionsMain{

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ApplicationContext appContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("ApplicationContext.xml");
        Country countryObj = (Country) appContext.getBean("CountryBean");
        countryObj.printListOfStates();
    }
}