Spring Puzzler #01: Welcome

I’ve spent the last two years and a half delivering the official SpringSource courses all over the world and during this time I’ve seen a lot of students coming across unexpected behaviors and wondering why. Based on Josh Bloch’s Java Puzzlers, I’m going to introduce you the Spring Puzzlers, a bunch of puzzlers ranging from Spring configuration gotchas to AOP and dynamic proxy voodoo, transactional enigmas…

So here’s the first one 🙂

Our entry point will be a WelcomeService, a really simple interface with a single method welcome:

public interface WelcomeService {
	void welcome(String name);
}

The implementation uses a LocalizedWelcomePrinter to print the localized message to the console. I’ll be using JSR-330 annotations for the DI :

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;

@Named
public class ConsoleWelcomeService implements WelcomeService {

	@Inject
	private static LocalizedWelcomePrinter printer = new SpanishWelcomePrinter();

	public void welcome(String name) {
		printer.printWelcome(name);
	}

}

There are 2 implementations of the LocalizedWelcomePrinter (a custom interface), one for Spanish:

public class SpanishWelcomePrinter implements LocalizedWelcomePrinter {

	public void printWelcome(String name) {
		System.out.println("Bienvenido a Spring Puzzlers " + name);
	}

}

And one for English. Notice I’m using @Named here to autoregister the component in the application context:

@Named
public class EnglishWelcomePrinter implements LocalizedWelcomePrinter {

	public void printWelcome(String name) {
		System.out.println("Welcome to Spring Puzzlers " + name);
	}
}

So the configuration is quite straightforward, a single line enabling the component scanning:

<?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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
		
	<context:component-scan base-package="com.sergialmar.springpuzzlers" />

</beans>

And this is the class that bootstraps the system:

public class WelcomeBootstrap {

	public static void main(String... args) {
		ApplicationContext applicationContext =
			new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("app-context.xml");

		WelcomeService welcomeService =
			applicationContext.getBean(WelcomeService.class);

		welcomeService.welcome("Sergi");
	}
}

So…what will be the output after running this class? Choose the right answer from the below poll!