package com.timo.domain;

public class People {

    private String name;

    private Integer age;

    public String getName() {

        return name;

    }

    public void setName(String name) {

        this.name = name;

    }

    public Integer getAge() {

        return age;

    }

    public void setAge(Integer age) {

        this.age = age;

    }

}

package com.timo.domain;

public class PeopleFactory {

    private static People people=new People();

    //this is non-static method.

    public People createPeopleInstance(){

        return  people;

    }

}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

                http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <import resource="applicationContext.xml"/>

    <import resource="applicationContext2.xml"/>

    <bean id="peopleFactory" class="com.timo.domain.PeopleFactory"></bean>

    <bean id="people" factory-bean="peopleFactory" factory-method="createPeopleInstance">

        <property name="name" value="曹操"/>

        <property name="age" value=""/>

      </bean>

    <!-- more bean definitions go here -->

</beans>

package com.timo.test;

import com.timo.domain.People;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class Test5 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ClassPathXmlApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext-instance-factory.xml");

        People people = applicationContext.getBean(People.class);

        System.out.println("name="+people.getName()+" age="+people.getAge());

    }

}