public abstract class Qi4jApplicationBootstrap
extends Object

Run a Zest Application as a Spring Bean and export its Services to Spring.

Steps to export Zest service:

• Create spring BeanFactory service of qi4j services to export.
• Create a class that extends Qi4jApplicationBootstrap.
• Sets the layer and module that register BeanFactory service.
• Assemble qi4j application by implementing #assemble method.
• Sets the identity of bean factory service. This identity is the spring bean name.
• Declare qi4j bootstrap in spring xml application context.

  
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  
   <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:qi4j="http://www.qi4j.org/schema/qi4j/spring"
   xsi:schemaLocation="
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
   http://www.qi4j.org/schema/qi4j/spring http://www.qi4j.org/schema/qi4j/spring/spring-0.5.xsd">
  
   <!-- class that implements Qi4jApplicationBootstrap -->
  
   <qi4j:bootstrap class="org.qi4j.library.spring.bootstrap.Qi4jTestBootstrap"/>
  
   <bean id="commentServiceHolder" class="org.qi4j.library.spring.bootstrap.CommentServiceHolder">
  
   <constructor-arg ref="commentService"/> <!-- Reference qi4j comment service -->
  
   </bean>
   

Importing Spring beans as services

1. Application bootstrap class must implement interface ApplicationContextAware.
2. In the application bootstrap import service to the module using method ModuleAssembly.importedServices(Class...).
3. Set concrete Spring bean as meta-data of the imported service.

Look at org.qi4j.library.spring.bootstrap.Qi4jExportServiceTest for sample implementation.