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Features
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Spring
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Pico
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Yan/Nuts
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xml configuration
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Yes
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Through Nano Container
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Yes
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Life cycle
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Singleton only
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Singleton only
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Both singleton and prototype
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Parametered and ad-hoc life cycle
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No
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No
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Through <lifecycle> tag
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Constructor Injection
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Setter Injection
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Factory Method Injection
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Referencing Field
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FieldRetrievingFactoryBean
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Implement ComponentAdapter
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Through <field> tag.
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Anonymous sub-bean
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Ad-hoc bean combination
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No
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No
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Through <sequence> or <callcc> tags
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Concise collection literal
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No
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No
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Yes
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named local bean
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No
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No
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Through <local> tag
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Bean Definition Reuse
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through "abstract" bean
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Through <function> tag
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import module
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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module private beans
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No
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No
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Through "export" and "hide" attribute of <module>
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Selective import by bean names
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No
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No
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Through "includes" and "excludes" attribute of <import>
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Import with namespace
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No
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No
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Through "namespace" attribute of <import>
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Singleton bean with prototype property
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Requires Cglib and bytecode generation
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ComponentAdapter combination
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Through component combination
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Dependency Injection for objects not managed by container
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Supported at the cost of Spring API dependency
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No
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Through <function> and <factory> tag
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Extensible tag library
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No. But FactoryBean is a substitute
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No
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By implementing subclasses of Nut
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Configuration unit-testable within configuration file.
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No
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No
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By using <sequence> together with <assertEqual>, <assertSame>, <if>, <unless>, <fail> etc.
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autoproxy
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Yes
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No
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Custom PropertyEditor
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Container hierarchy
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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AOP support
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Both Spring AOP and AspectJ
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Via dynaop
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Any AOP solution can be plugged in. An integration package for spring AOP is provided out-of-box.
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Declarative Transactional support
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Yes
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No. But Spring's declarative transaction support is integrated.
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Scripting language support
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Not yet
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Nano Container
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Not yet
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