FactoryBeans and the annotation-based configuration in Spring 3.0

Question

Spring provides the FactoryBean interface to allow non-trivial initialisation of beans. The framework provides many implementations of factory beans and -- when

Answer 1

Why do you not inject the Factory in your AppConfiguration?

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

    @Resource
    private SqlSessionFactoryBean factory;

    @Bean 
    public SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory() throws Exception {
       return factory.getObjectfactory();    
    }    
}

But may I did not understand your question correct. Because it looks to me that you are trying something strange - go a step back and rethink what are you really need.