How do I override a Spring bean definition yet still reference the overridden bean?

Question

I\'m attempting to implement a delegate Service provider by overriding the bean definition for the original service with my delegate Service. However, as the name would imp

Answer 1

Use the "parent" attribute of the "ref" element with a parent container.
You can find a detailed example in Spring documentation: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/beans.html#beans-ref-element