Update spring beans dynamically. Is it possible?

Question

Is there a way to update a Spring bean dynamically if the spring beans configuration changes?

E.g. assume that I have a spring bean with boolean property x and the spring beans has the value true when the application starts.

So spring creates the bean with the property x set to true.

Is there a way so that if I changes the property to x (while the application is running) that the property will be updated e.g. to false?

Answer 1

Calling the setter for x setX() method will do that.

But it should not be a prototype bean.

Answer 2

it is possible with the jrebel-spring integration. it monitors your configuration and TRIES to re-wire your beans at runtime.

Though i would not use it in production...only for playing around, testing etc